We just received a report that the first boats rounded Fowey Rocks at about 3:00 p.m., and Team Tybee is in the lead.

Fowey is about 30 miles south of the starting line in Hollywood, so they are averaging about 10 mph.

Wind is still about 7-8 mph out of the east-southeast. Looks doubtful or marginal for using spinnakers on the way back to the finish.

Rick says if it were him, he might consider reaching out and using the Gulf Stream current for a ways, and then maybe popping a spinnaker back in to the finish line.