Finished!

Yay! Very slow finish, took us about 1hr to go from the Cows to the line. But we did it, finally! Great race, great crew and great boat!

Beating up the LIS

We're moving smoothly after very gusty conditions initially. Stayed with our #2 jib and managed to pass some of our competitors even! If things hold and we don't get a surprise thunderstorm we should be back before the morning.

Back at Plum Gut

Wind from zero this morning to 20kn now! We're just about to pass Plum Gut with awhipping current against us.

Morning report

dang the blackberry ran out of battery and we were quite busy yesterday. So anyways, we got off to a good start reaching under 0.5oz spi and managed to roll a bunch of bigger boats. Decided to go through plum gut which we passed around midnight. Northern end of Block Is at 6a and we rounded the southern tip at 8:30. Time to go to bed now! Picture of Snow Lion passing us at nightfall.

And we're off!

Last preparations

Devin going up the mast (twice!) to thread the new halyard.

Weather forecast 05272010

Looks like we'll start with headwinds and end with headwinds!

First post

Check if this works.. Here is the link to the official race webpage: http://stormtrysail.org/Pages/2010-BI-Race/2010-BI-Race.html
I guess we're all ready to go! Can't wait to be on  a big race again!