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Rick was down at the beach at the Islander in Islamorada for the start. The start was uneventful, but it looks like it will be a long beat up to Hollywood. Wind was at least 15-20 out of the northeast at the start.

Uneventful? The TVS video seems to indicate there was some boat on boat action. What happened?

Just got a report that Todd Hart broke his spinnaker pole and returned to the beach for repairs.

Question in my mind is why return? It is very doubtful that anyone would need a spinnaker for this leg.., and he could have repaired at Hollywood.
Rick

maybe he forgot the water-balloon launcher as well?

UPDATE: according to Tad's video i just saw, Todd came back to remove the spin system and not going to use one today. I guess his bag was dangling or something similar that required the system to be removed.

Rick, when I broke my pole at a distance race last year I could not go to weather at all without removing everything. Then I had the problem with sharp broken parts on the boat to contend with. I can see why he would come back.

I have to agree with that. If any of the spin gets in the water it can be a mees to deal with. Best to remove it all together once the pole is broken. Tad stated something about Todd making contact with a port start boat but that was all I could make out.
I'm tired of the lysol ad already!!!!!!!

Check the Headline Page for stories. Have a brief story up now at www.catsailor.com

Rick

From the Tybee tracker page it looks like the C2 is in the back of the pack, maybe on the beach with Todd.

To track the boats live, go to
http://www.tybee500.com/TybeeTracker

Rick

The tracker is tough to follow. Boats are all being updated at different times. Some are within a few minutes, some are an hour old.

I see that now. The AHPC boats spot is over 30 mins old. No telling where they really are then.

That tracker is useless, even the race committees location is 40 mins old

That is a relief! I was wondering what happened to JC, now I won't be concerned.

From what the tracker shows Todd Hart is on the water and Cat in the hat is out front. It did update on the race committee. I think JC must have thrown the spot in the water at the start, it hasn't moved so far

This looks like one tiring day to start off with.

This event never fails to move me. I am rooting for the Seacats teams, Orange is Jake, and Jake is, well Jake(maybe it is the cape?); and then we have Todd on Adrenaline ("Local boy"), but I can't help rooting for Velocity too...

tracker showing Bugaboo in front. I hope they are further along than it looks, long night if not!

They are very spread out as well

Mica from Royal Yellow sent this message:
Todd Hart came to beach on royal blue with spinacker repair. Back
underway at 10:45.

Anybody know the details of the incident? I hear Todd is looking for redress following a port/starboard incident. Who else was involved? Was the damaged pole the extent of the damage?