By "painfull" I meant mentally. Our spinnaker was strangely untied at the tack and the clew overnight on the beach (we had been out practicing the day before) so when we set with 10 seconds to go on the downwind start...you can just imagine. By the time we got all that sorted out the back of the pack was turning the corner to go under the first bridge. We gambled and went for the rumbline and it actually paid off (I don't recommend this tactic unless all hope is lost) and we entered the P'cola cut (some 10 hours later) in front of all the 'normal' beach cats. Only lost a couple of spots running back to the beach through the night and ended up, I think, 8th overall finishing at 3am.