The 2007 Tybee 500 Race Coverage
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Finally, Tybee Takes Line Honors (report 9:30 pm)
It was not by much by Team Tybee Island finally took a bullet at the finish
line. Sure, Oolala had a broken daggerboard, but let us give credit where
it belongs -- this was a long drug-out leg and the fact that Tybee took
the bullet gives them hope to retain their title.
However, Oolala was only 24 seconds behind them. So much for the speech of enthusiasm. Oolalal still hold well over a n hour lead on all comers.
Waterhouse on Tiki Watersports Orange came in third tonight , followed by the surprising team of Velocity and then Seacats.
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Don't Hold Your Breath (report at 6 pm)
Piet Heemskerk advised the RC that Oolala was still 30 miles out at 5PM
and making 7 knots. That would make his projected arrival time between
8 and 9 PM, if the wind does not die. And you can pretty well expect the
wind to die down as the sea breeze slows up.
Sea Breezes usually start clocking to the left as the start to die out, and the wind here has just taken a pretty good shift from the NE to more NNE.
That is not a good sign.
Trey Brown of Velocity reported in that he saw part of a daggerboard float by. Well, Oolala also reported that they had broken one of their daggerboards. Could this the big break the other teams have been looking for?
If the teams arrive after dark, I will not be able to get any pictures.., Sorry! I learned back in the Worrell 1000 days that night pix are awful. Stay tuned, nonetheless, as I will try to capture the moment with my professional prose :-)
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At Flagler Beach, Oolala has a Substantial Lead (report at 1 pm)
A ritual left over from the Worrell 1000 is to stop at the Snack Shack at Flagler Beach, have a delicious fish sandwich and watch the fleete go by. This year was the same routine.
The seabreeze has started out on the light side, but is expected to build during the day.
About 12:30 the entire fleet passed.., all pretty close together. Oolala had about a 1/4 mile lead at the time, Tybee Island was in 5th place, but passed three boat before our very eyes and moved into second place.
The order as they went by:
- Oolala
- Tybee Island
- Tiki Watersports Yellow
- Velocity
- Accelerated Chaos
- Seacats
- Tiki Watersports Orange
- TCDYC
- Chums II
- Chums I
- Cat in a Hat
More to come, so stay tuned in.
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They are Off to Fernandina Beach (report at 10:30 am)
This leg is nearly 100 miles and will take a while in the ligher breezes
today.
The start was pretty uneventful in what could be labeled a tame surf in comaparison to the last two starts. However a couple of teams had a bit of trouble. TCDYC was using a spinnaker and got knocked around, spinning the bows back toward the beach. The Pusher managed to get them spun around the correct way and they finally made it through the swells.
The leaders got off to a good start. Their Pushers stayed with them far out and kept the pace going for them, since the water is very shallow far out from the beach.
Team Seacats told me that this time they had their paddles with them to get through the surf. Yesterday they floundered badly, unable to break through the surf for quite a long while. Jake Kohl admitted, "We forgot our paddles. I saw them sitting there in the box, too. But, I forgot them."
Here is the fleet lined up for the start:
And Pictures of the start:
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Sea Breezes to Control Today.., Surf's Down (report
at 9 am)
With no major weather patterns in the area, it would seem that
land and sea breezes will dominate the weather picture today.
As of this reporting time there is a light land breeze blowing offshore.
Land tends to heat and cool seven time faster than water surfaces, so during the night the land cooled to a lower temperature than the water. So, the warmer air over the water began to rise during the night. Then the air over the land moved out to replace the rising air over the water.
That is the land breeze we are now experiencing. At the start there will probably be a light offshore breeze and a mild surf to negotiate. That should be a relief to the fleet
Winds are predicted to be shifty and light until late morning when the opposite of a land breeze takes place. As the sun rises it heats the land faster than the water. Soon the air over the land will begin to rise. Air over the water then will move onshore and inland to replace the rising air over land.
Because of all this, the wind is predicted to be NE at 5 to 15 knots by late morning. So, the fleet will be in pretty ugly stuff until late morning, and then either be sailing to weather or a close reach after the sea breezes kick in.
Stay tuned!
And for good gossip by Bonnie Kohl from Team Seacats, go to www.teamseacats.com
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