It's coming...I should be home this evening to upload it (we're still traveling right now). I've got some personal synopsis at www.teamseacats.com

There should be no regrets in pulling out of that race. We questioned our sanity on several occasions.

Rounding down was certainly tricky and there was one occasion where we were getting pushed to close to a key on the ocean side and had to round upwind so we could sail away from land a little and bear away again. There was no way to sustain sailing above 5-10 degrees within dead downwind or under 15 degrees of close hauled. In that stuff, you feel trapped - sails are all the way out, the main is rubbing the shrouds (probably got some damage there), battens are s-curving, the jib is banging back and forth because you're so close to dead downwind and, given that we were both crammed as far back on the boat as possible, we were half panicked with the potential to have a surprise gybe in a puff that would send the boom across at the speed of light.

Oh, and to help the boat round down slightly more safely, pull the boards up and ease the jib from an upwind setting. The boat won't bite the water so hard with the boards almost all the way up and will reduce the tendency to lift the stern and dig in the bows. With the jib drawing a little it will help the turn go faster but too much jib will put additional pressure on the bows. Enter the turn with speed to keep good flow over the rudders and turn hard.