Here are the overall Results thus far as of Myrtle Beach:.

Just a little tidbit, but when the ground crews arrive at each hotel, they literally take over the parking areas -- sort of reminds one of Grant taking Richmond. In the parking lot the entire water end of it was packed with ground crew vehicles, including the 34-foot Catamaran Sailor Media Bus.

Check out Worrell 1000 Invasion Sea Storm. From left to right the support vehicles are: Tybee Island Truck Lions International Van Outer Banks Worrell 1000 Official Car (hidden) Catamaran Sailor Magazine's Media Bus Worrell 1000 Official Car (hidden) Rudee's Restaurant Truck Outer Banks Limo

But check out this ground support vehicle:

VIP ground crew are Rick and Terry Loewen riding in the limousine support vehicle of Outer Banks. Some teams really go in style

Meanwhile, crews jumped in to help out Pomodoro that got a hole in the hull due to the collision at the start at Isle of Palms -- See Leg 7 for a picture of the collision.

With heat lamps and bright lights the ground crews of many of the teams chipped in and worked on into the night to get Pomodoro ready to race the next day.

Team Extreme landed last night at half past midnight. Worn out and frazzled, Chris Webster immediately arranged to meet someone at the Interstate miles away to get more parts for their failing and misereable rudder system used on the Mystere (a.k.a. Mis-Steer) boats. He didn't get back until 4:30 in the morning.
Meanwhile, Dave White got a little sleep and was back out working on the rudder system at the crack of dawn. He asked the question, "It's 1999. With all the technology we have today, wouldn't you think Mystere could come up with a rudder system that works by now?"
Undaunted by hardships, Webster and White were both ready to go at the start and bravely pushed off the beach right on time. Bill Wallace of Georgia shook his head, knowing all the trials and tribulations this pair and others have faced, then said, "This race re-defines the word 'determination' to me!"

They're Off With a Splash

In relatively light winds out of the north, northeast, the tem remaining teams took off from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Their destination? Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, some 83 miiles away. And all uphill -- another long day of beating into the wind with boats that prefer to sail with the wind abeam or aft.

Big Brothers/Sisters plow into the first breaker as they are leaving Myrtle Beach. Guy Selsmeyer, on the left, is still pushing while Tom Powers jumps aboard and tries to organize things. Dave Popp keeps muscling on.

Earlier than expected the first boat hit the finish line around 5:30 PM. It was feared this would be still another killer beat to weather as has been the last two days. It turned out that most of the guys really enjoyed this leg of winds near 20 mph.
From Myrtle Beach the fleet had to round Cape Fear, which runs almost east from Myrtle Beach. With the northeast wind, that made the first 50 miles of the leg from Myrtle to Wrightsville a close reach. The wind began dying around the cape, and then after rounding the spit of land, the wind picked up nicely and it was still a 30-mile beat to the finish line.
Cape Fear is probably mis-named, as it is one of easiest on this course to get around. That is unless you get to close to it. There is definitely readably deep water. Clive Mayo commented, "We had our boards down all the way around Cape Fear."

Guy Selsmeyer and Tom Powers muscle througth pretty good-sized surf

Randy Smyth and Keith Notary guided their Chick's Beach craft first around Cape Fear before the weather leg. Four teams diced it out all the way up the weather section of the leg – Pomodoro, Rudee's Worrell Bros., and Tybee. They all kept exchanging positions in very tough racing.
Hans Meijer said, "The four of us kept swapping positions and playing with each other. Only thing is Randy wouldn't play. He just kept staying out in front." Someone nearby said jokingly, "Yeah! See! He's afraid of you guys – he just goes way out in front and won't even try to compete with y‘all." (Notice that southern drawl – after all we are in Carolina)
Clive Mayo said he was way behind before they started into the beat but kept gaining ground and finished very close to the others.
Smyth/Notary were the first to finish, but they did not pull out any big lead on this leg – all five of the leading boat finished within 10 minutes of each other – that is very tight racing after 80 plus miles.
Pomodoro was 2nd the finsih line only a few minutes behind, followed by Rudee's, then Tybee and Worrell Bros.

All the teams are in as of 7:30 PM except Team Extreme -- they have been having a very, very hard time of it.

Here are the results of the Leg from Mytle Beach, SC to Wrightsville Beach, NC:

Pos	Team	Sailors	Arrival Time	Distance Behind
1	Chick's Beach	Randy Smyth, Keith Notary	17.33.55	00.00.00
	Pomodoro	Hans Meijer, Brian Lambert	17.38.21	00.04.26
2	Rudee's Restaurant	Brett Dryland, Rod Waterhouse	17.41.38	00.07.43
3	Tybee Island	Steve Lohmayer, Kenny Pierce	17.43.35	00.09.40
4	Worrell Bros Rest.	Clive Mayo, Jamie Livingston	17.43.39	00.09.44
5	Big Brothers, Big Sisters	Guy Selsmeyer, Tom Powers	18.31.31	00.39.36
	Outer Banks	John McLaughlin, Peanut Johnson	18.16.18	00.42.23
6	Lions Intl	Carl Roberts, Todd Hart	18.23.08	00.49.13
7	Turtle	Alex Korakis, Scott MacDonald	18.57.12	01.23.17
8	Extreme	Dave White, Chris Webster	Not in	Not in