Report just in from Kirk Newkirk:
The boats have just passed Hobe Sound. Wind has picked up and is from the ESE, and all the boats are flying spinnakers -- somewhere between a beam reach and a broad reach.

Here is the order at this point: Pirates, Tybee, Key Sailing, Coconut Grove, Sailmax I, Sailmax II, Windy Hil, Morada, St. Louis, Spacecoast, Velocity.

Hobe Sound is only about 15 miles north of the start, but the boats are moving along really well now, which is good, because this is a very long leg -- about 111 miles to Cocoa Beach.