Weather forecasts by source for the Keys areas are as follows:

For the Race route, partly cloudy chance of precipitation 10%.

Key Largo: Winds from the East 14 - 18 mph.
Marathon: Winds from the east 20 - 22 mph.
Key West: Winds from the east 16 - 18 mph.

Marathon seems strange , but we all understand that forecasts are just that, and we can never be sure.

Skippers meeting at 09:00 April 25th and we will mesure Key Largo winds from the pier at the Islander resort and report at that meeting, as always rule 4 is to be emphasized.

Did the race happen, or was it too windy?

What happened??????

Starting Islamorada finishing in Key West. Winds 25+, seas 3' to 6' close together,
Basically had to steer DDW due to power of waves. Coming up to get speed, to catch next wave.
Capsized once screaming/surfing down a wave, and the main jibed.

With a lot of sea weed on the rudder, about 5 miles from the finish, the rudder popped off the pintel
while jibbing and broke the tiller arm. (bad rudder retainer)
So we dropped the main, since in those wind/wave conditions one needed both rudders to jibe.
We were doing 6 to 8 knots under jib alone.

Another boat lost a rudder near finish, A M20 broke a spinnaker pole strut 1 hour into race and sailed back to start.

Chris
F16 #709

http://topofusion.com/tracker-sail.php Playback of the race is cool, be patient for download of playback.

http://sailseries.com/index.php?opt...09&month=04&day=25&Itemid=45

Below are the results. Warren should be posting the story soon.

FINAL RESULTS:
Scoring: Hours:Minutes:seconds
Elapsed Corrected
1st Team Cyberspeed (SC 20) 5:43:30 9:24:30
Craig Van Eaton & Rob Behrend

2nd Team Splickety Lick (Nacra 6.0) 6:00:45 10:06:18
Mark Lipkus & Tony Priu

3rd Team Royal White (I-20) 6:50:50 11:54:30
Curt Johnson & Kevin Greene

4th Team Yahwahnnah (F-16) 7:34:30 11:58:01
Chris Stater & Eric Hosch

DNF Team Carbon Cruising (M-20) DNF
Bret Moss & Doug Russell

You're tougher than I am Chris! Glad you're in one whole piece.

What happened to the M20? Breakage or...?

Broke a Spin Pole strut shortly after the start.

Where have I read that sentence before, it sure does look familiar. Yes Tim you get your balls busted if you can't make it to the 10th sentence of a previous post.