Hello Everyone

I wanted Trey to post this because everyone loves Trey, but the man has his foot down on him at the moment and he can't be coaxed into writing something up. So you get me. Sorry!

This year we have a two-pronged coverage of the race. We have the girls, Jen and Kate, providing the "beach beat" on velocitysailing.com.

Another outlet that has been made available to us this year, is complete race coverage provided by Sailing Anarchy. They have their correspondent coming along the whole week and he'll be providing both the patented " On The Water Anarchy " coverage as best they can given the changing venues, in addition to a complete editorial write-up on the front page of the site of the previous days' racing. It also gets published in SA's "E-anarchy" mailing list newsletter.

We're pretty excited about being able to bring this race to more viewers than ever before thanks to SA's huge following!

Cant wait! Im rooting for you guys, five teams is nuts!!

Good luck and fair winds and following seas.

Two other outlets you could notify for still more coverage, Scuttlebutt and

http://www.jobsonsailing.com

Thanks for the updates and good luck to all, I hope the wind is perfect!

Yes, yes it is.

Is Tank amused by it all Robi?

For anyone reading this, Robi, WilderGFX.com cut a MASSIVE amount of vinyl for our fleet. He did it tirelessly and did it perfectly. Without him, we'd be up #$!@# creek. He's truly a coveted member of our overall team .

Thanks Robi! I hope Tank has recovered from it all.

Tank said to hell with you all! I guess he still is not amused. LOL

Tell him that we'll get him a nice "Official Team Velocity Spinny Wheel thingie" for him :P

Bump. I can't believe I had to go to page 2 to find a Tybee thread.

You wouldn't have to go to "page 2" if you would do your settings to allow 30 (or more) posts per page, like I do.

Thanks for the tip. I changed my settings.


Update from the beach in Islamorada: Team Velocity finished up with the photo shoot this morning and now everyone is busy working on their boats. After lunch a few of the teams are heading out on the water.

Thanks to Jen for posting updates on the website (including a few pictures from last night's rum party!) and thanks to Frank, Jake, and Team Seacats for hosting us.

www.velocitysailing.com

Good Luck to All of you competitors.

The teams are off...TVS4 was a little late to the start due to waiting for a fax for proof of insurance. More updates to come...

Wind/surf conditions? (You might be a sailing junkie if you get butterflies before the start. . . and you're at a keyboard.)

Clean is doing a decent job with the videos. Check it out:

http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=90182

Thanks to SouthSails, The Chuck, BK and the rest of the Adventure Online TV crew for helping in TVS 2's spin repair. We sent the sail in for repair at 4AM and it was back to us and on the boat by 9:30AM. How's that for turnaround? We also want to thank Rob down in Jupiter for the Hobie gudgeons on TVS6/Magic Marine. Without you guys we wouldn't still have all of our boats in the race.

Rob is the speed part (string puller) of team cyberspeed. Just got off the phone with him and he is looking forward to his Tybee t-shirt.