Tybee 500 -- Official thread for all input

Memo from Mary:
This year let's try to keep all the Tybee 500 input, questions, answers, blogging, etc. on this thread instead of people starting new threads all over the place, because then it is hard to keep track of what is going on. I am making this thread "sticky," so it will always be there at the top of the threads. I think it will be neat for people to be able to read down through everything that happens in the race and on shore in flat mode on this one thread and save it for future reference in your favorite threads.

For all the information about the race, go to the www.catsailor.com home page. There is a lead-in story about the Tybee. Click through on the link and that will take you to our Tybee 500 page, which has the full stories and all the information about the checkpoints and the teams, including links to their team web sites. And Rick will be posting stories and pictures every day and then placing them in the specific “Legs” of the course.

All that, including the video produced by Brian Karr and the GPS tracking of some of the boats is all accessed from our Tybee 500 page in the box at the right side of the page.

Thanks. The race is about to begin!

The race is scheduled to start at 10:00 a.m. from the north end of Jewfish Creek in Barnes Sound, Key Largo, FL. Rick is on his way north to the Card Sound Bridge to get pictures of the boats as they pass under.

After that it will be up to each team to decide where they will transition to the ocean side from the Biscayne Bay side. Rick's lead-in story lists the various options.

More on this thread when Rick gets back from the bridge.

Weather forecast is for south-southwest winds at 10 knots. Sounds like a spinnaker run to the first checkpoint at Hollywood.

I don't know how accurate this is, because it was rattled off to me third-person. Under the bridge at Card Sound in this order:
Marley Yellow (I think that is Lohmayer)
Team Tybee (Not on the registration list, but it is Kenny Pierce/Jamie Livingston)
Marley Orange (I don't know which that is of the 3 Marleys)
Cat Fever
Sea Cats
Cat in a Hat
Team Moose-Burd
Team Velocity (had a spinnaker problem, but have got it working again)

Rick has a bunch of pictures up now at our Tybee 500 page.

I really like the live tracking thing. Does everybody have one, or is it just one boat? Great pictures!

Thanks RAM!

This is a really interesting perspective to be on the shore crew and hanging out with Rick this morning. We had a great view of the boats as they came under card sound bridge and a bunch of drama with the two teams with spinnaker problems. This is pretty exciting!

As far as I know, it is only the three Marley boats that have the tracking devices. Only two of them seem to be working. Don't know whether the third boat is not racing or the device just not working.

It would be great if all the boats had them. Anyway, I'm keeping my eye on Steve Lohmayer, who is the one out front, even though we don't know where he is in relation to all the other boats. He is a veteran of this race and the Worrell 1000 and lives down here and knows the waters very well, so I can usually count on him being in front or near the front.

I don't know how those tracking things work, but it would be nice if the old spots would go away when a new spot is reported, so you just see where they are right now. The way it is, it looks like a whole herd of boats, when it is actually just two.

The live tracking is cool, is there anywhere that shows their speed? I can't find it. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

More new pictures (boats going under the Card Sound Bridge). Go to our Tybee 500 page and in the box at the right, click on "Leg 1."

On the tracking thingy, I LOVE the satellite view.

Yeh, if you zoom in enough it clears up to single track, sorta.

I finally found out who is who of the three boats with the tracking devices:

Marley's Bayside Grille 1 -- Jared Sonnenklar/Mike Siao.
They are designated as "orange" for the tracking, but apparently their tracking device is not working.

Marley's Bayside Grille 2 -- Steve Lohmayer/Jay Sonnenklar.
They are designated as "yellow" for the tracking.

Marley's Bayside Grille 3 -- Dennis Green/Jason Childers.
They are designated as "white" for the tracking.

Report from Warren Green is that Marley's white capsized twice between the start and Card Sound Bridge, so they are back a ways.

Marley's Yellow was first under Card Sound, and Marley's Orange was third under the bridge, so too bad orange's tracking device is not working. They will check it out when they get to Hollywood.

I have been told that Kenny and Jamie have a tracking device on their boat, too, but I don't know where to see it. I'll try to find out. If somebody knows, post it here.

Report as of 1:30 p.m. is that the boats are at least 45 minutes to an hour away because the wind has died.

How to watch the "tracking." I was asked to explain it for the benefit of people like myself who have a hard time figuring this stuff out. So bear with me if I don't use the proper technical terminology.

When you go to our Tybee 500 page, click on "Tracking" in the box at the right side. It will show you a sort of map with a bunch of little bubble things all kind of clumped together. They are in groups of two -- a black round thing with a little orange pointer on the bottom and an associated, colored circle with a number in it.

The orange pointer on the bottom of the black thing tells you where the boat was at the last report, and they seem to be changing positions about every 10 minutes. Point your mouse hand finger on the black bubble, and it will tell you the time when that position was posted.

The color in the attached circle tells you which boat is reporting, and the number in the colored circle tells you the number of the report, the highest number being the most current.

The legend on the left side of the page beside the map tells you which color is which. Unfortunately, to add to confusion, the one designated as "yellow" shows up as green on my map. And the one designated as "white" shows up as light blue on my map. And orange, of course, is not there at all because of some malfunction, apparently.

Important: In order to better see what is going on, you need to spread out the gaggle of bubbles. So over to the left side is a ladder-type thing with a little bar on it. You can move that bar up on the "ladder" a rung or two at a time to expand the map and spread out the "bubbles."

And if you want to see what the shoreline really looks like, click on "Satellite," and it will give you a google view, which is sometimes more interesting.

Remember, though, that all those bubbles are only representing TWO boats, so we only know what is happening with those two boats, Marley's 2 (yellow, which displays as green), and Marley's 3 (white, which displays as light blue).

If you keep the tracking page open, refresh the page whenever you think about it, because it updates the positions about every 10 minutes.

Oh, yes, and you can use your "hand" pointer to move the map up and down by holding down your left mouse button.

According to Beach Captain Neil Wilson, the wind at Hollywood has died to 2-5 mph out of the southeast. I don't think they are allowed to paddle in this race; are they?

It's still blowing really nice here in Key Largo. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

I'm beginning to suspect that my information might be wrong as to who is white and yellow and orange for the Marley boats. We will find out when they get to the beach.

The first boat is almost there. I'll be back soon.

First boat just arrived at Hollywood. It's Team Tybee skippered by Kenny Pierce and crewed by Jamie Livingston. Next boat is about 5 minutes away.

Second boat in is Marley's 1, Jared Sonnenklar & Colin Page.

All the boats are in:
1. Team Tybee
2. Marley's 1
3. Velocity
4. Marley's 2
5. Cat Fever
6. Sea Cats
7. Cat in a Hat
8. Accelerated Chaos
9. Marley's 3
10. Team Moose-Burd

Everybody Rick has talked to on the beach so far has said they flipped at least once and many flipped twice, sometimes from the wind and sometimes from hitting sand bars.

Kenny Pierce and Jamie Livingston, who won the leg, capsized twice.

Rick will have a wrapup story and pictures posted as soon as he can find his motorhome. Wasn't easy finding a parking place what with so many people taking their mothers out to breakfasts, brunches and dinners today. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for the great race coverage Mary Rick and all .

Jake -you're not racing ? It must be difficult watching them , are you alt crew and will you be hopping aboard latter ?

All the best to all the teams and crews . Say Hi for me, hope to be there next May to race .

A happy safe race adventure for all as part of a great race and Eastern Seaboard cat racing tradition .

So many in the 1000 mile and 500 mile events over the years with so many great memories and amazing racing stories to tell .

What a great event to be part of .

take care

Thanks for the updates Mary and Happy Mother's Day too!

A couple questions for Rick when he gets the info,

1. What was the average speed of the 1st. place boat? (or tell us the distance they sailed so we can figure it out)

2. It's been blowing 20+ out of the southwest all day here in Sebring, only about 100 miles north west of Hollywood, did the wind really die over there or was the beach captain standing behind a big condo? How can it be windy in the Keys and here but not there, right between the two? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Here's the weather I got off the internet, Ft. Lauderdale Airport, 22 gusting to 28.



Current Conditions Local Forecast Hourly Forecast Local Doppler
Warnings / Advisories Satellite Images
Conditions at nearby location:
Fort Lauderdale / Hollywood International Airport, FL

Mostly Clear
95°

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Sunrise: 6:36 AM
Sunset: 7:57 PM
First Quarter Moon
Humidity: 40%
Wind Speed: W 22 MPH G 28
Barometer: 29.85 in.
Dewpoint: 67°
Heat Index: 99°
Wind Chill: 95°

Video from the setup day is posted: http://www.catsailor.com/VideoPlayer.html

Also on MySpace:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&channelid=264917903

Couple of stories: Todd Hart and Larry Ferber were within boatlenghts going through the Card Sound Bridge, and finished exactly the same distance apart. Amazing.

After Card Sound Bridge, 8 boats were close to one another, Trey had spin problems and was back, and one boat flipped after the start. The 8 boats flew spins until the shore forced them to gybe, from the bridge we could see the shallows they gybed into, and then Kenny in the lead hit bottom and flipped. Boats 2 and 3 also hit bottom and one flipped. 4 through 8 headed up and made it around.

They were pretty spread out at this point but the wind died for a bit in the ocean and they grouped back up.

In case you haven't been back to our Tybee 500 page recently, Rick has posted story and pictures from today's finish. (Please excuse his typos.)

How cool is that? Go yo kid!

Actually, it was Seacats and Cat in the Hat tangoing today - Cat Fever is "the other blue boat".

velocitysailing.com has its update.

Jake you coming to dinner with us?

No plans for me to race at this point - I am the backup but hoping I don't need to get on a boat. It was tough today! Watching the guys take a beautiful spin run up north to Hollywood was awesome and I wanted to be out there. However, tomorrow looks like a day full of gonzo-reaching. Offshore breeze, very gusty, hands-full / no relaxing kind of sailing. I'll probably feel better tomorrow!

I just watched the Orlando weather, cold front coming tonight (but only 5 degrees cooler) with north wind 15-25+ At least it's not on shore but it won't be a spinnaker run, that's for sure.

GO, TREY, GO!!!

Video from the first day of racing is posted: http://www.catsailor.com/VideoPlayer.html

Also on MySpace:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&channelid=264917903

Trey, you have a very flattering pic on the SA Homepage <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />, Im pulling for a tie between you and Todd, and Frank, and kenney, man, I dont know who to pull for.

Rick's morning story for Leg 2 is on our Tybee page. Start is scheduled for 10 a.m.

The boats have started on their trip to Jupiter. Two flew spinnakers and went way offshore (don't know which ones). Then they dropped their spinnakers and continued under main and jib but seemed to have more wind than the boats closer to shore.

If you are following the tracking, all three Marley's boats are showing up today.

Orange on the tracking is Marley's Orange with Jared Sonnenklar and Colin Page

Green on the tracking is Marley's Yellow with Steve Lohmayer and Jay Sonnenklar

Blue on the tracking is Marley's White with Dennis Green and Jason Childers

Here's an explanation again of how to use the tracking map:

When you go to our Tybee 500 page, click on "Tracking" in the box at the right side. It will show you a sort of map with a bunch of little bubble things all kind of clumped together. They are in groups of two -- a black round thing with a little orange pointer on the bottom and an associated, colored circle with a number in it.

The orange pointer on the bottom of the black thing tells you where the boat was at the last report, and they seem to be updating positions about every 10 minutes. Point your mouse hand finger on the black bubble, and it will tell you the time when that position was posted.

The color in the attached circle tells you which boat is reporting, and the number in the colored circle tells you the number of the report, the highest number being the most current.

The legend on the left side of the page beside the map tells you which color is which boat. Orange is Marley's Team 1, which has an orange boat, and it displays as orange on the map. Yellow is Marley's Team 2, which has a yellow boat and displays as green on the map. White is Marley's Team 3, which has a white boat and it displays as blue on the map.

Important: In order to better see what is going on, you need to spread out the gaggle of bubbles. So over to the left side is a ladder-type thing with a little bar on it. You can move that bar up on the "ladder" a rung or two at a time to expand the map and spread out the "bubbles."

And if you want to see what the shoreline really looks like, click on "Satellite," and it will give you a google view, which is sometimes more interesting.

If you keep the tracking page open, refresh the page whenever you think about it, because it updates the positions about every 10 minutes.

Oh, yes, and you can use your "hand" pointer to move the map up and down and all around by holding down your left mouse button.

If you need to get hold of me to report something or ask a question, you can e-mail me, mary@catsailor.com or call me at 305-451-3287. Thanks for any input.

Cat Fever is now also using tracking. However, I don't have the link yet and won't be able to get it until I get to Jupiter and see Bill
Rick

Start story and pictures are now up on our Tybee page.

Brian Carr was up in a helicopter this morning to film the start, and he just called in a report to me. They followed the fleet up to Port Everglades, and at that point Team Tybee was well in the lead, followed by Accelerated Chaos and Marley's Orange (Jared and Colin).

Bad news was that right at Port Everglades Trey Brown and Alan Stewart on Team Velocity broke their tiller crossbar in the middle, and Trey fell off the boat. When the helicopter left the scene, Alan was trying to steer the boat with one rudder to return to pick up Trey.

It appeared that Cat Fever was heading back to the beach.

An unidentified white boat appeared to have broken its spinnaker pole and they were stopped, trying to fix it.

I don't have any more fingernails!!!

Three boats have finished at Jupiter, all within seven minutes.

Team Tybee finished at 1:42 (Kenny Pierce)
2nd was Marley's Yellow (Steve Lohmayer)
3rd was Marley's Orange (Jared Sonnenklar)

Three or four more boats are on their way.

4th boat is Marley's White (Dennis Green)

Here is the whole list of finishers:
1. Team Tybee
2. Marley's Yellow
3. Marley's Orange
4. Marley's White
5. Sea Cats
6. Accelerated Chaos
7. Team Moose-Burd
8. Cat in a Hat
9. Team Velocity

Cat Fever is expected to arrive in about an hour and a half. They broke something early in the race and had to go to shore to fix it.

Gumbo Party Directions

www.teamcyberspeed.com/party.pdf

I am heading to the finish shortly. I have not seen Cat Fever yet. I might have missed it cooking though.

In case you haven't checked yet, the finish story and photos are now up on our Tybee web page.

the full story of the velocity encounter is at velocitysailing.com

Thanks

Waiting for the start of Leg 3 from Jupiter to Cocoa Beach. Could be difficult for ground crews today because TV said that parts of I-95 and U.S. 1 are closed in the Palm Bay (Melbourne) area due to all the grass fires going on -- and with winds from the west-northwest, the smoke is all blowing toward those roads. Schools in Palm Bay have been closed today because of this problem with road closures.

Also, the firefighters think these fires are being started by arsonists because a new fire starts in a new place exactly every 45 minutes.

In his morning story on our Tybee 500 page, Rick said that we now have it set up to watch the live tracking from Team Tybee and Cat Fever, as well as the three Marley's boats.

I checked it out, and apparently there is more work to do to get all three of these three different tracking sites working properly.

After the start Rick will see if he can get it straightened out for Cat Fever and Team Tybee. The Marley's tracking site is still working fine.

They started at 10 a.m. but nobody told me until now.

Wind has shifted to 15-20 out of the north. For the start there were small breakers near the beach and huge breakers farther offshore. Everybody got through without problems.

Team Moose-Burd on the F-18 had to return to the beach because the carpeting in their daggerboard trunk bunched up and they couldn't get their board down. They cut out the carpeting and are on their way again.

Watch for Rick's story and pictures, probably, at our Tybee page (or link to it from our catsailor.com home page.

On the Marley's tracking site, it looks like the Marley's Orange tracking device is not working again today. I just see Marley's White and Marley's Yellow on the move.

Wow! thanks for the update Mary! We would have plodded along unknowingly right into the snarl.

Jake, stay on rt. 1A, as close to the beach as you can. Yes, you will have to go in and around Stewart but there are no fires there, you could jump on 95 to get around, then get back to 1A as soon as you are north of Stewart. But stay away from 95 when you get near Cocoa.

I just told Rick what Timbo said. Rick is on I-95 right now passing Stuart, and he said he doesn't see any sign of smoke yet. We'll see what route works best, I guess. More strategy involved for the ground crews today than for the sailors? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

All the tracking links are working now. It's pretty tricky trying to look at all three of them and figure out where the boats are in relation to each other. Looks to me like Team Tybee is in the lead (at least of the four boats that are being currently tracked).

As I mentioned earlier, in the tracking site with the three Marley's boats, Marley's Orange (Jared Sonnenklar and Colin Page) is not tracking today.

jensen beach at 1pm
tybee
velocity
chaos
marleys yellow

velocity was close to tybee and were at least 7mins ahead of the other boats but then the closer in boats got a huge lift and wew tracking right up the beach. hard to say whose winning but we saw velocity tack in front of tybee, then saw tybee get ahead again.

thank god for self-tackers.

just heard on the radio that fires were spotted near the turnpike now. teams may want to start hoofing it.

velocity and tybee have respectively pulled ahead of the rest of the fleet at the nuke plant 10 miles north of Jensen.

We're on fort pierce jetty _ about to call runniing order at teamseacats.com

Jake,

How bout wind & wave conditions?

Thanks

Not nearly as much wind as yesterday, Wx Channel says North at 7, which feels about right, I'm 80 miles west of where they are, but they may have a little more with the sea breeze that should be on by now.

Wind about 15knots with some heavier gusts...the gusts will probably get stronger later in the day but the wind is expected to drop to 7-8 by 7:30 to 8:00pm. They're around half-way there now. Waves are relatively flat (2' or so) where we were - though we were at a jetti where the current was crazy so it was hard to judge.

We saw smoldering fires on either side of A1A right up to the edge of the highway (the immediate fires appeared to be under control - or, rather, done) at around North Melbourne. There was a helicopter about a mile away doing water drops. We could see a few structures near the road that were fried. This is crazy.

We've been on A1A since Fort Pierce - pretty smooth going.

Looks like the only two boats that are still working on the live tracking are Cat Fever and Marley's White. They appear to be just north of Vero Beach now. It's going to be a long evening.

Well today I got to see my first Tybee start and all I can say is that it sure was exciting to watch live and not on the PC, lots of cheering and quite a few spectators! But Rick and BK keep up the good work as that is the only start I'll see, the the pics and vids are great!
A lot of the teams ate at Cybers (Craigs)last night, had some real good Gumbo, should hold them over for a long day today.



How F'd up is that?

Last I checked, about 30 min. Ago, it looked like Cat Fever's transponder had also ceased and it had beed 45 minutes since a check-in .. I guess the batteries are dying.

Yeah, I thought Cat Fever was done, too, but just got a new update 12 minutes ago.

At 6pm the Orlando news is saying the Cocoa Beach winds are dropping off now, about 10 out of the NE this hour. On the fires, some people saw a guy in a brown SUV toss a lit flare out the window into the woods and a fire started, luckily they saw it, got neighbors to help and they were able to put it out before it got out of control.

Where do these idiot fire bugs come from? Don't they have homes at risk? If they catch them, maybe they should tie them to a pole and light 'em up, Old School.

Marley's Yellow is back on tracking now, too, after being off for 3 hours. Weird.

And Team Tybee is back on tracking now, too! Getting close to Melbourne.

The boats being tracked are all north of Melbourne now, closing in on Satellite Beach. The guys on the beach at Cocoa say the wind has dropped to about 7-8 mph, still out of the north-northeast. They're figuring 2 1/2 hours till the boats start finishing. (Doesn't look that far to me.)

I'm betting the first boat is going to finish at 9:00 p.m.

Congrats Trey... great day!

Congrats Velocity!

Has anyone finished yet? It's 10pm! 12 hours on the water with no shade...ugh! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

http://www.catsailor.com/Tybee500/Tybee08/Tybee3.htm

We're missing a program. Which sailor goes with which boat?

They are missing 3, are they still sailing ?

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Order was:

Velocity
Tybee
Marley's Yellow
Cat Fever
Marley's Orange
Seacats
Marley's White
Chaos
MooseBurd
Cat In the Hat

In my opinion (and I wasn't sailing), that was one of the toughest Tybee 500 legs in history. Yes, we've sailed much later before, but never as physically for so long with less VMG for the majority of the day.

Thanks Jake, I was getting ready to copy the results from your site. What a long day, I can't even imagine how sore they must be.
Great job and congrats to all for finishing that leg!

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Good stuff all! Thanks for the updates. Happy Sailing tomorrow.

<img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Today the Orlando weather man says East wind at 10-15kts. Hopefully it will be a fast reach instead of a long, slow beat! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

I have been fiddling around with how to use the live tracking screens of the boats that have tracking devices on board. Here is what I am doing: (And it makes more sense if you do this after the start when they have already started transmitting and are moving again. When you first open up the tracking screen before the start, it might show something that looks like a deck of cards all piled up at the checkpoint beach, especially in the case of the Marley teams, where there is more than one boat being tracked on the same screen.)

1.I open up the tracking screen. I immediately go to the “ladder” or “zipper” or whatever you want to call it at the left side of the map. It has a plus sign at the top and a minus sign at the bottom and a bar in the middle. I move the bar up until it is JUST BENEATH THE 7TH RUNG from the top of the ladder. To me, that is the best size to show the reporting points (bubbles) spread out enough and also to have an overview of where the boat is.

2.To find out where the boat currently is on the map, go over to the far left side of the your screen where the message board is. Put your cursor over the top message on the board, which is the last transmission from the boat, and the tracking “bubble” on the map will start showing signals like a horn blaring. If you still don’t see it because it is out of view on the map, LEFT CLICK on that same message, and the map will automatically reposition itself so the boat is on the screen with those blaring signals. (Takes a few seconds.)

3.You can do the same thing if you want to find out where that boat was at an earlier position in the race – just left click on that earlier message, and the map will reposition itself down to where the boat was at that time.

Tip: The blaring horn signal to show where your boat is can also be helpful if your boat is hidden behind another boat on the screen (or if that particular boat has some of its later reports hidden behind an earlier report).

4.VERY IMPORTANT: I found out that even if you keep the tracking screen open all the time, as I do, you do not have to manually refresh the screen to get the latest position updates – it does it automatically. This is a MAJOR bonus, because otherwise you have to re-do your map settings every time. So DO NOT REFRESH the screen.

5.Since we have three different screens for tracking right now, I figured out how to see pretty well how the boats are doing against each other even though they are not all on the same screen. Just open each tracking screen, set each to the same size (with the bar right under the 7th rung), and diminish all three so they are in a row at the bottom of your computer screen. That way you can open them one right after the other and see pretty much how the tracked boats are doing in relation to each other.

6.If you open one of the screens, and you don’t see the boats in their current positions, remember that you just go over to the message board and left click on the top message for that boat, and it will reposition the map to take you to where that boat is.

P.S. I didn't figure this all out by myself -- some of it I learned from the "Help" feature at the bottom of the message board.

And I still can't figure out how to make the tracking line appear. It shows for one of the boats but I can't get it to show on any of the others, although I think I am following the instructions in the "Help" section. If anybody figures that out, let me know, because I think that is pretty neat when it works.

IMPORTANT TIP: When you are looking at how two boats are doing against each other, you also have to look at what time each of them last broadcasted a position report, because that can make a big difference in where they actually are in relation to each other. They all seem to broadcast at different times and at different intervals. You find the time of the report (message) by left-clicking your cursor on the boat's black bubble for that particular position.

ANOTHER TIP: The message board at the left of the screen can be made to disappear or reappear. If you click the arrows at the top right of the message board, it will slide to the left. To open it up again, you click the little arrows up at the top left.

Story made it into the Palm Beach Post with a photo in the local section, can't find a web link though.

Rick posted a pre-start blurb and weather report on our Tybee page for the leg from Cocoa to Daytona. He will put up more after the boats are on their way.

It looks to me like all five of the tracking boats are broadcasting this morning -- the three Marley's boats, Team Tybee, and Cat Fever. We'll see how long that lasts today. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

If you are new to the coverage, remember that to get to our Tybee 500 coverage page, you go to our home page, www.catsailor.com, and the top story on the page has links to click through to our Tybee 500 page. All the archived stories and pictures from preceding days of the race are in the box at the right side of the screen, along with links to the Live Tracking and to Brian Karr's videos.

They are all off and running. Wind was about 15 mph from the east for the start. Nobody had problems getting through the surf, but Rick said there are some good pictures. He will get them up soon at our Tybee page.

He said it will probably be a close reach until they get around Cape Canaveral and then a broad reach.

More in Rick's story. He just got to his computer in the motorhome.

Rick has his pictures posted on our Tybee page of the start through the surf, and they are great. Check them out.

Because the boats are all so close together right now on this reach out to the tip of Cape Canaveral, I have all three of my tracking maps set a bit bigger, with six rungs showing at the top of the ladder instead of seven. As you can probably tell, I am getting addicted to this tracking thing.

It looks like Marley's Orange is not transmitting again today. It only seems to work on the beach. I don't think Jared and Colin want anybody to know where they are. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I'm calling them the stealth boat.

According to the tracking, the leaders are rounding the tip of Cape Canaveral and should be turning left to head downhill soon.

I just got back to RI last night and had left my computer home so I couldn't upload these sooner.
I took some short videos from the card sound bridge on Sunday of some of the teams passing under it.
I put them on youtube... first time i've posted on there... I am amazed at how much quality is lost when they reduce the size of the file.



Team Seacats and Cat in the Hat Team Marley's Orange & Full Wave Audio (accelerated chaos)

Team Tybee

Thanks, Todd.

Wind report at Cape Canaveral is 13.6 knots gusting to 17.5 knots, out of the east. Daytona Beach forecast for this afternoon is for 10-15 out of the east.

So I guess the question is, with the east winds will they or will they not be able to use their spinnakers? Or will it be a beam reach with main and jib?

The tracking doesn't show you that stuff. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Okay, now on the maps it looks like they are on enough of an angle that they should be using spinnakers.

marley's orange dismasted off Cape Canaveral!- seatow going to get them

I hope they are okay, and that they don't drift into the security zone. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Is that Marleys 1, 2 or 3 ?

I think I found it to be 1.

I can't keep them straight either. Orange is Jarrod Sonnenklar and Colin Page and while I think that's "1", I'm not certain.

I hear that the failure was at deck level on the starboard shroud. Either the chainplate let go or the shroud tang pulled out of the hull. This came from Brian Karr (www.adventureonline.tv) who is on his way with camera in tow.

Mary, on the GPS tracking units, is there no way to get a speed readout too?

I tried doing the Marley boats as 1, 2 and 3 to begin with, but everybody was calling them by their colors, and they are referred to by their colors on the tracking, so I switched.
Marley's 1 is Marley's Orange, Jared and Colin.
Marley's 2 is Marley's Yellow, Steve Lohmayer and Jay Sonnenklar.
Marley's 3 is Marley's White, Dennis Green and Jason Childers.

Not that I know of. And I think these tracking things were designed for slow monohulls or something, because often they don't give readouts for an hour or more at a time. They probably figure they won't have moved very far anyway. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Keep in mind that I don't know anything about these things. And nobody else seems to know anything either, including the teams that put them on their boats.

Marley's orange broke the forestay chainplate. They're packing it up and are done for the race (outside assistance).

That's a shame, because they were in third place overall after three legs.

What a shame indeed! I found myself rooting for many of the teams these few days, but these guys were just spectacular! So sorry they are out of the race.

The leaders should be in sight soon if not already, because they are close to Daytona Beach Shores. Rick says the wind is now coming out of the south, right up the beach, so the boats may be tacking downwind.

The dismasting was in fact due to the forestay chainplate failing. Never seen a failure like this, the chainplate snapped in half.

Word is that they will take the 8 hour penalty and setup again in Daytona. This is not confirmed though.

Im back to work today, but have two days of helicopter video to edit and will attempt to get some up over the weekend.

Three boats in sight; should be in within about 15 minutes.

First three boats, in order, are:
Tybee
Velocity
Marley's Yellow (Lohmayer)

Seacats web site said Marley's White, which is incorrect, except that they also said Lohmayer, which is right.

All three boats finished within a span of about 3 minutes. No other boats in sight.

if the chain plate failed at the weld then I've seen it before and been on a boat when it did. No fun!

Sorry for the delay -- I was tied up on the phone.

Next three boats are:
Accelerated Chaos
Cat Fever
SeaCats

And Cat in a Hat is about to finish.

Moose-Burd and Marley's White are still out.

Marley's White is coming in to the beach now.

There is a rumor that Moose-Burd (the F18) shattered a daggerboard somewhere along the way and may have hull damage.

Maybe we will learn more about that as soon as Marley's White lands.

Haven't heard about Moose-Burd yet, except the Seacats site says they hit a turtle.

Meanwhile, at our Tybee page Rick has posted story and pictures from the finish -- lots of great pictures. And if you didn't see the pictures from the start yet, keep scrolling down.

Moose-Burd is now in sight, limping in. They indeed hit something and broke their daggerboard -- don't know whether it was a turtle or a ray or what. They are taking on some water, but will be on the beach soon.

Anyway, they are okay.

They made it in at 6:20 pm.
Rick

Any damage to the hull? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

don't think so, but during the landing, they ran over the finish line flag (and nearly the guy holding it) and upon the ground crew trying to take them back out to re-round, the crew pulled on the spin pole and snapped it in half too. The F18 crew is saying they're out at this point; spinnaker has major damage (which is why they came in without a chute), short one daggerboard (no spare), and now a broken spinnaker pole. Hard to blame them.

Team Moose-Burd did not have any hull damage. The board delaminated after rounding the cape. They had a tough day as they also tore the spin where the taped seam let go. Then as they finished they took out the flag at the finish line, and had to bring the boat back out to re-cross the line correctly, but fell and broke the spin pole. We are all trying to help them have the option to continue the race with the nessisary parts, but as we can all imagine it has been a tough day for them. We will see the final verdict in the morning.
Today was a tough day with lots of parts breaking on many boats. Two long days coming up.... both look to be down wind days in strong breezes.
Chris
www.acceleratedchaos.com

Yeah, the Orlando Wx is saying south east at 15-20 tomorrow, maybe more of the same on Friday...

What ever happened to the concept of having spare parts?

How many other sports dp you see this kind of help being given to opposing teams? This is part of why I love our sport, and this race! Thanks Chris!Hope they can hang in there!

Too bad they have the only Tiger in the race, otherwise the other Inter 20's could loan them parts. Still, isn't there a Hobie Dealer not too far away, in Melborne or Daytona?

This is Moose-Burd's second bow sprit broken. They broke one earlier during a pitchpole.
Apparently, they are retiring and were no shows at the skippers meeting at 9AM

Tomorrow the start may be at 9am.., we will be notified of this tonight.

At the skippers meeting Larry Ferber of Cat in a Hat said if anyone is having problems to turn their radios to channel 16. Larry said, "Since I am usually near the back of the pack, I may be able to be of help to anyone that needs it."
Sort of like the Ski Patrol cleaning the mountain at the end of the day. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Rick

The F18 is a Infusion which is a Nacra product. Not a Tiger

You may have confused it with the TCDYC team last year that did it with a Tiger.. Unfortunately they didn't complete the race either and dropped out the last day.

I know there was a movement to get a F18 fleet to to the Tybee... It would be great to see, but not a good track record so far.

Ahhh, I thought someone earlier said it was a Tiger, sorry, but the I 20 boards won't fit as they are too narrow, right? It's already blowing pretty good out of the SE right now, should be a fast ride for them today.

The boats are all off on the way to Fernandina Beach, about 100 miles away.

No problems at the start except that Marley's White got hit by a wave and turned around and Dennis Green fell off the boat. Their pusher got the boat straightened up and Dennis got back on, and they are off. No big deal.

Team Marley's Orange (Jared and Colin) are back in the race, taking an 8-hour penalty, after they dismasted off Cape Canaveral and had to get outside assistance.

Moose-Burd is out because of their damage problems, as you read in the posts above.

Wind is south-southeast at 8-10, and the boats all popped their spinnakers right after the start.

Watch for Rick's morning report and photos on our Tybee page.

Velocity broke down - ground crew shot off like lightening from the hotel to give chase - not sure what the problem is.

Boy if Trey and Alan would stop breaking things and stay on the boat they may really be in contention.. Hopefully this is nothing major.

Everybody is at that Shack along the way, having lunch, and here is the order of the boats passing:

Tybee
Marley's Yellow (Lohmayer)
Marley's Orange (Jared & Colin)
Accelerated Chaos
Marley's White
SeaCats
Cat Fever
Cat in a Hat

Undoubtedly - it takes about four years of racing this race to understand what needs to be gone through and modified or reinforced to withstand the riggers of 524 miles of ocean (basically - you see everything that can break, break). Trey and Alan most definitely have the speed to contend. If I were forced to guess, I would guess that they had a spinnaker problem. I've got calls into everyone - hopefully hear something soon.

We were going to stop in Flagler Beach for lunch to watch them pass, but they're already beyond that point - we're boogieing to Fernandina.

Update on Velocity's problem:
They came to shore because they broke a rudder gudgeon. Their ground crew did not have a spare, but Patsy Shafer, who is on ground crew for Team Tybee had one and gave it to them and Velocity is back on the water and about 35 minutes behind the other boats.

Another great example of teams helping each other out.

That one is hard to predict - they used to have a known issue with those and the prevention was to have the pins double welded but they have done that from the factory for a long time now - it's been a while since we've seen that happen!

This is bringing back some memories from Jekyll Island a couple years ago. After that incident I can't believe Trey wouldn't carry a case of double welded pins with him everywhere. They are probably just missing their favorite ground crew who is stuck at work right now. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Anyone else not getting current Marleys tracking, I can get the others?

No, Marley's teams are not tracking right so far today.

The gudgeon isn't "broken" in the sense that the pin sheared but the flat plate actually bent. as for why we didn't have a spare... we do, it just wasn't in the box that it was supposed to be in. I had to basically grab the spares boxes out of the trailer as I was litterally pulled out of the shower by the call. We were packing the truck when i ran out of the room half naked.

Where is Brian with his video camera when we need him? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Pretty quiet here today, I'm sure no news is good news so I'll hijack this thread for a minute to tell Team Moose – Burd that they did a great job even though they had to pull out in Daytona, It was fun watching you and you had lots of fans pulling for you, as has been said on this site before that “Getting to the starting line is usually half the battle”. You guys made it all the way to Key Largo from CT, NY and NJ and were able to compete in the Tybee 500! There are lots of us on this site that can only dream of doing that! Congrats and maybe see you next year at Craig’s again.

Jerry

Team Tybee finished at 4:04 and there are two or three more boats out on the horizon. I guess that's what you call a horizon job.

2nd boat in was Marley's Yellow (Lohmayer)
3rd was Marley's Orange (Jared & Colin)
4th was Cat Fever
5th was Velocity
6th was Accelerated Chaos
and two more boats are in sight.

7th in was Marley's White
8th in was SeaCats
9th will be Cat in the Hat, which is in view.

The thought of Tad naked has killed any motivation to ever film again.

For any of those reading Team Seacats, I'm sorry for leaving you hanging for over an hour and a half...Cat in the Hat are fine - they're mast is broken, the rigging twisted, and the mainsail is toast...but they made a herculean effort to clear away the broken rigging and with the help of Daryl and one of the Mooseburd sailors (I believe Burd...sorry I didn't see exactly which), they marched the boat a mile up the beach in the water and across the finish line. We drove the Team Seacats truck with trailer down the beach to pick up the pieces and spent the last hour or so bringing them back.

They have been offered the spare mast from the Cat Fever team and any rigging from Team Seacats that they may possibly need. I don't believe there was a single team that didn't offer up parts to get them back on the water...they'll be on the line tomorrow with the goal to hit the finish lines for every stop up the coast for the first time (this is their 3rd year)

Once Cat in a Hat wa in sight I ran back to the Bus to get up my story and pictures, assuming they were going to be OK. No, They were not.
I had told them to stay toward the shore all day. Well, they did that, got too close as they were very close to the finish line, got into the surf and were knocked down.
They broke their mast, ripped up their jib, etc.
They gathered up most of the boat and drug the boat up the shore line and crossed the finish line.
That took guts! They are now working hard to get ready for tomorrow's start.., if there is one. And all the rest of the teams were there offering help and parts. HMMMM! Would you see that in NASCAR?
Rick

I'm happy to report that Cat in the Hat has their boat back together and are ready to sail tomorrow!

Maybe and maybe not, but that is the kind of thing that has gone on, goes on, and will hopefully continue to go on at every Catamaran regatta. That kind of sportsmanship is what makes this such a great sport, and a great group of people. It is not unique to the Tybee, but typical of catamaran sailors across this country, and I rather suspect, all around the world. Congrats to all of the sailors that have proven once again what a great group of people Catamaran sailors are.

Stephen

Hey Todd,
Keep on truckin' and keep the pointy end up, "old salt!"
Congrats on being there and good finishes. Say hey to Steve, Kenny, Jamie, and Jay.
Good luck and get home safely,
John McL

Yahoo! Thanks Jake, that's great news! Way to go Tybee teams!

This is why I am proud to be a cat sailor!!!!!

They are starting at 9 a.m. today for this long (100+miles) leg from Fernandina Beach, FL to Tybee Island, GA.

The reason for the early start is because some nasty thunderstorms are possible this afternoon, and they want to try to beat them.

SeaCats and Marley's White are not sailing today. I'll get back to you with the reasons after the start.

Velocity got a great start and jumped into a 300-yard lead, while Tybee struggled in the surf and couldn't get the spinnaker filled.

Accelerated Chaos broke its rudders at the start, and other ground crews brought spares. They were off again after only about 5 minutes.

Rick will have his morning story and pictures up soon.

SeaCats and Marley's White are not sailing because of "wives." That's pretty much all anyone will say. Apparently, it is because of concern about the possibility of some severe thunderstorms this afternoon.

One more thing, just to add some additional confusion to the tracking, Cat in a Hat is using Marley White's tracking device today.

Thanks everyone for helping out Cat in the Hat, that's awesome! I can't believe you were able to put it back together, You guys are the best! Go Larry & Jackson!

Not sailing because of Wives, man, do I feel their pain!

Sorry to hear that guys, but I know it well... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> As a matter of fact, I'll be cleaning up the house and yard today instead of sailing, got to get ready for a kid's pool party tomorrow. Hopefully I can get some of the kids out sailing tomorrow so it might work out.
But this is the Tybee 500, what did they think it was? (the wives I mean) The Tybee 400?

It's not just because of Wives - the weather has real potential to get nasty and there are no bail-out points past Saint Simmons Island. It was a team decision.

I get pretty scared when I am on a little 2 mile wide bay when thunderstorms come through. Anyone who wants to avoid that out on the open ocean ain't going to catch any crap from me. Of course, I am not of the same "cloth" as these guys <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Jake, I'm relieved I won't have those teams to worry about. I really do fret about the competitors sometimes. There is not a lot of help available out there! Any idea when they might finish? Hoping Chaos can make up for lost time today, and that they all get in safely.

We just sat thru a "red" storm sitting off I95 at a really nice BBQ restaurant.

LOTS OF RAIN.

no lightning, no "damaging winds".

The teams should be fine if they make it in before 6PM by my estimation.

Very diplomatic of you, Jake.

"Wives" was the reason given by a race official and a team member, both of whom shall remain nameless. Personally, being a "wive" myself, I think the wives should be given full credit for a common-sense decision like that. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Wow
I was just looking at the weather.com radar and the tracking map and looks like Cat Fever is on the edge of a storm.

They have also veered off of shore a bit.

Hope they don't get in the middle of it!

Actually it would be neat if you could overlay the radar map on the tracking map.

I think the leaders have a shot at beating the bad spot of weather headed this way. We're on Tybee Island now and seeing some occasional lightening. The really bad line of storms is expected here at around 4pm. By my estimate, it should be close.

NexRAD weather NexRAD weather

Tad and Jake, How much contact do you have with the crews when they're out there? Do they have to be "in line of sight"?

Not much contact unless there is a problem. With the wind like it is now, I doubt we'll hear anything as they're undoubtedly too busy to pick up a phone (they probably don't have a signal out there anyway. We had a short but strong line of rain and strong lightening come through Tybee just now ... from the looks of the sky, we're on the north end of it. It's going to be interesting.

What motivates a sailor more -- trying to catch the leader or trying to outrun a storm?
I picture this kind of like a skier trying to outrun an avalanche. A little extra adrenaline there.

Definitely a storm. Senses are extremely heightened and you are pushing as hard as possible without flipping. Every thunderboom is another jolt of adrenaline. It's not like you weren't already sailing as fast as you could, but there's a new urgency to your sailing.

Jake, what is the stress like for ground crews on a leg like this where there is no way for the ground crews to get to their teams if there is a problem?

I can say from being there that you live on a different level for that time. If the weather is just "normal" weather for this race you only think of the storm in an abstract way. Where do we want to be when it hits.

Once it gets crazy you go into survival mode. I don't know how to explain it. If you find yourself questioning if you should go out. Don't. It requires you operating on a level mentally that some people just don't have.

Looks like Team Tybee finished or is close to finishing from looking at their tracking.

Unfortunately I cannot get the Marley's tracking page to work. All I get is the following error message:

"Error happened. Exceed the maximum view count for this shared page"

Rick says; tybee in at 4:30, -t's 5:00 now and still now boats in sight. Storms holding off for now.

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I guess I don't get out much, because I just found out that the Tybee 500 website has daily pictures. Good ones, too. Who is the photographer?

According to the Tybee 500 official race web site, the finishers so far are Tybee, Velocity, Marley's Yellow, Marley's Orange and Cat Fever.

Sorry, but I don't have anybody at the finish beach right now.

The race web site is also saying that Accelerated Chaos has dismasted about 11 miles south of the finish and are attempting to jury rig something so they can finish.

Cat in the Hat is also now in, per the race web site.

Check this out:

Chaos sailed the last 11 miles with this rig:

that is awesome. I bet they had fun setting that up!

necessity is the mother of invention. We limped across the finish line, but we made it. The last 11.2 miles were some of the funnest sailing I have ever done. We were surfing down waves, running the kite off of the spin pole mast, and enjoying every moment thinking... 'This is what the tybee500 is all about, finish at all costs'. Will post more later, but for now, its hit the town and get the drink on!
Chris

Chris, great job! I'm glad someone got a picture, nice looking rig, good thing the wind was from the back not the front!

What was the fastest speeds you guys (all you guys) saw on the entire race, from the Keys all the way up? The GPS plotters were great but didn't show speeds. Nobody gave total distances either so I couldn't figure the averages.

That is going to be one famous photo!

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Alan's GPS read 28 knots for a max the whole race. With some of the wind they had on the last two days, I can believe it.

As for elapsed time/distance, the Jupiter to Cocoa leg the guys sailed abour 125, 130 miles.

They did it in 10.5 hours on the nose the whole time.

BK great third episode, awesome footage of the guys on Marleys Orange.

Speeds: Jackson's GPS had a max of 36 but I don't believe it, but there were long stretches where we would average 19-20 sustained. Day six toward the end we were flying like dolphins at seaworld, up until we stuffed the whole boat in a wave and wreckaged when the wind kicked up to 40 sustained. Great day of sailing the last third of the leg!

Happy epilogue: At the end of day 5 when we went a little long on a gybe and wiped out in the surf, we lost the whole rudder assembly as well as the mast breakage. Today, on the way home from Tybee, we went back to Fernandina, I put on a wet suit and swim goggles, and dredged our landing zone hoping to trip over the rudder assembly (and not a shark!). With the goggles on however I couldn't even see a foot in front of me, despite an offshore wind with low tide and minimal surf. Finally giving up, we then reached the lifeguards who were posted at the beach where the race finished. There were 5 of them there, and one of them, Cindy, said she saw a rudder 2 miles north sticking up in the sand. I asked her if she would drive me down there on the beach and she agreed. A mile in, there on the left, was my other rudder, crossbar and tiller extension completely intact. A mile further we came upon the rudder she saw. All told all that was broken was one lower bracket and one rubber connector doohickey. I was completely psyched. Pam said the rudders were trying to catch up with the boat in Tybee, but just couldn't make it.

All and all a great race this year with generally excellent wind, 3.5 days of spin runs, 1 day on the nose with a fast close reach finish and one day of screaming beam reaching in difficult variable winds.

Our goal is to get 20 boats to the start line next year, so if you've done the race before but have been sitting out lately, or if you want to take a run at the best race we have going, please sign up at tybee500.com. I'm happy to answer any new teams questions either here, or through a pm, or over at 1design.net.

may the four winds blow you safely home...

Kudos to all of you!

FWIW: Dictionary.com has a lot to say about the word. I like this best.

"Greek kudos magical glory."

Hey Larry,
Glad you got your rudders back, that's excellent.Now ya just need to get that hair growing. I'll get those parts off and to ya as soon as all my swelling goes down.
I really enjoyed hanging with you and your team and everyone else. It always boggles my mind how great a group of people is involved with this.
See ya on the water,
Todd

I agree with Pete. Kudos to all! I loved Chris' attitude about finishing in true Tybee spirit. He even looks triumphant in Jake's photo! Larry, I don't think there is a better spokesman for the race than you! I share your hopes for 20 boats next year! All the best, Brian

Every time I look at that photo, I see George Washington crossing the Potomac.

We considered flying my bathing suit from the top of the make-shift mast, but Tripp refused to let me get naked on the boat. He threatened to jump overboard....

What is the make-shift mast made of? it looks like a tiller... but you still have a tiller for steering? (PS..well done!)

spin pole. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Ahhhhh!!!! I see.. I couldn’t figure out what the thing that looked like a shoe in the middle was.... now I know! hehe

So just curious... what’s top speed with a 12' mast?

apparently they hit 11.2 knots. They were giggling like schoolgirls when they hit the beach with that setup.

Does anyone remember this?

Is that the PYacht guys from the Worrell days?

Hatteras carnage, good stuff. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Back in the day, when Men were Men, and sheep were nervous! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

d-a-a-a-a-a-a-d-d-y, d-a-a-a-a-a-a-d-d-y, ....b-a-a-a-a-a-a-

She's HOT! But an old Indian told me, Sheep lie! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Why do the Scottish wear kilts?


Sheep can hear zippers!


Sorry, It was too good to pass up.

Have you heard a New Zealand mating call?

Baaaaaaaaaa!

An Australian told me this one....

Have you heard about the latest Aussy sex aid? Velcro Gloves.

Here's my sheep joke, hope it doesn't offend Mary. It was quite popular at work when Delta's CEO and VP of Ops. were getting bonuses, while telling all employees to take massive pay cuts.

The CEO and the VP are on vacation at a Dude Ranch. Out on horse back one day they come upon a sheep who's head is stuck in a wire fence. The CEO looks around, nobody else around, so he hops down off his horse and get's some, shall we say, -mutton love-.

When he's done he looks at the VP and says, "Come on down here and get you some!"

So the VP gets down off his horse and walks over by the sheep, looks at the CEO and says, "Do I have to put my head in the fence too?" <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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Your startin' to sound just like Gary Jobson.
Todd

nice ep4 BK, excellent work as always. Its cool with the theme you have going with Marley's Orange that they were chasing down Team Tybee in the hele vid sequence. If you put some sheep in ep5, I think more of these shaggers will comment :<>

I'm jonesin' for ep5 BK!

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BK: Once again, I'm blown away by your production. Thats some good *NOODLE* right there buddy.

Love the tune on that one too. Where can I get the CD?

Thank you! And JW picked that one.

http://www.myspace.com/blacktievendetta

That early shot of the front 6 or so boats is incredible. They're REALLY hauling the mail there.

You need some U2 in there somewhere! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Great work. Thanks.

So we gonna do one a week?

No U2 pls.

Nice ep5

How bout some Jerry Garcia (maybe on a less windy leg).

Which leg was that???

The one where your rudder casting did its best Mk82 bomb impression :P

BK, I'm jonesin for the next one. When can we look for it? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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