Boats are brought by participants and need to be race ready. Replace everything thats not new. Have extra boards, rudders, spin pole, sails, battens, rigging, rudder gudgeons and castings, hell just have a spare boat! We brought an extra mast plus the above listed stuff and used some of the spares(rudder casting and spin pole, spin)

Plan on having at least 3 land crew, the more the better. We did it with 2 and worked them extremely hard. Girls in bikinis are a distraction(key Sailings strategy)

Count the hotels, gas, food, beverages, and incidentals for the crew all the way up the coast including 2-3 days of prep on location. $500 entry fee.

Count on 3K at the very least(you may not eat a couple of days on this amount) 5K is better, 10K and you are in.

We had about 8K and barely got by, that included boat upgrades and spares.

Get yourself some sponsors, a good team, and a good team manager. Take care of them. Get a good boat and test it. Buy spare everything.

Sail!

David Mosley
NACRA F18
Team SEACATS