Just to give everyone a quick response to what really happened, here it is from the race course.
1st of all, I wanted to let everyone know the Blade is awsome. Matt and Gina sailed that Blade beautifully and it looked great on the water. The Blade actually would make up a lot of time upwind and we jockeyed positions numerous times on the race course.

Due to some very poor race decisions, we were put on the short course. The first day we didn't even have time to throw the spinnaker because as soon as it went up we were at the c mark. It was very upsetting and I did voice some displacer to race management about the decision.
The second day, I got with Matt and Hollis and we decided to race the long course and didn't care about scoring.
it was a great decision and we had a great time.
I really got to see the Blade sail upwind and with Spinnaker. Matt and Gina made one of the best saves on the reaching mark when they threw the spinnaker and tried to hold it. it was a truley great site. Matt and Gina nor Hollis finished the second race on the second day, due to either the elements or boat issues. Team Mack Attack finished the last race on the long course even though we were scored on the short course and the c mark had floated several 100 feet due to the severe weather. I can proudly say we never took a swim, thanks to Gordon and his excellent crewing and years of experience.
I think we did pretty good coming in second with two races on the long course, being scored on a short course and the 1st day missing the start by 9 minutes due to the race committe starting the race without anyone that was lauching from Rowell's Marina the 1st day.
Right after the skippers meeting, we all left to the launch site and got stuck waiting for the bridge to close and then we had to proceed out of the lauching facility one by one.
Again, making everyone late and very annoyed.
All in all it was sailing in the keys and the weather was great for f16's. I wanted to say thanks to Matt and Hollis for making the race very competitive. I think the Blade is going to be an outstanding boat.
Hopefully next year the race committe will better accomadate the f16's or I may not return.

Seth