New thread... and a note from the Cap'n.
Anyway the short story............Won the start hit it double trapped and for the next 5 plus hours never got off. Held the lead for about 1 hr or less. Dropped as far back as 7th after about 3 hours climbed back to 3rd within 3 and 4 hrs. wind went to a 18 to 20 knot beam reach and we didn't have enough weight to hold it down. Had a great battle with the South African Team to the finish. We lost our 76 (GPS Unit) in a bad wave so I was staying offshore convinced that we had 20 miles to go - looked behind and saw them diving to the beach.........Ah Ha, the capt. said, this is better then I thought. We Don't have 20 miles to go!!! But they gained about 2 min. on us. However its better than 20 more miles.........we hit the beach respectably in 5th. 2 places better then last year and several minutes closer to the leader See ya Capt. Kirk Thanks, Kirk!
Kirk and Glenn are in 5th, 20 minutes out of first and 10 minutes out of 4th.
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