You may have confused it with the TCDYC team last year that did it with a Tiger.. Unfortunately they didn't complete the race either and dropped out the last day.

I know there was a movement to get a F18 fleet to to the Tybee... It would be great to see, but not a good track record so far.

Ahhh, I thought someone earlier said it was a Tiger, sorry, but the I 20 boards won't fit as they are too narrow, right? It's already blowing pretty good out of the SE right now, should be a fast ride for them today.

The boats are all off on the way to Fernandina Beach, about 100 miles away.

No problems at the start except that Marley's White got hit by a wave and turned around and Dennis Green fell off the boat. Their pusher got the boat straightened up and Dennis got back on, and they are off. No big deal.

Team Marley's Orange (Jared and Colin) are back in the race, taking an 8-hour penalty, after they dismasted off Cape Canaveral and had to get outside assistance.

Moose-Burd is out because of their damage problems, as you read in the posts above.

Wind is south-southeast at 8-10, and the boats all popped their spinnakers right after the start.

Watch for Rick's morning report and photos on our Tybee page.

Velocity broke down - ground crew shot off like lightening from the hotel to give chase - not sure what the problem is.

Boy if Trey and Alan would stop breaking things and stay on the boat they may really be in contention.. Hopefully this is nothing major.

Everybody is at that Shack along the way, having lunch, and here is the order of the boats passing:

Tybee
Marley's Yellow (Lohmayer)
Marley's Orange (Jared & Colin)
Accelerated Chaos
Marley's White
SeaCats
Cat Fever
Cat in a Hat

Undoubtedly - it takes about four years of racing this race to understand what needs to be gone through and modified or reinforced to withstand the riggers of 524 miles of ocean (basically - you see everything that can break, break). Trey and Alan most definitely have the speed to contend. If I were forced to guess, I would guess that they had a spinnaker problem. I've got calls into everyone - hopefully hear something soon.

We were going to stop in Flagler Beach for lunch to watch them pass, but they're already beyond that point - we're boogieing to Fernandina.

Update on Velocity's problem:
They came to shore because they broke a rudder gudgeon. Their ground crew did not have a spare, but Patsy Shafer, who is on ground crew for Team Tybee had one and gave it to them and Velocity is back on the water and about 35 minutes behind the other boats.

Another great example of teams helping each other out.

That one is hard to predict - they used to have a known issue with those and the prevention was to have the pins double welded but they have done that from the factory for a long time now - it's been a while since we've seen that happen!

This is bringing back some memories from Jekyll Island a couple years ago. After that incident I can't believe Trey wouldn't carry a case of double welded pins with him everywhere. They are probably just missing their favorite ground crew who is stuck at work right now. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Anyone else not getting current Marleys tracking, I can get the others?

No, Marley's teams are not tracking right so far today.

The gudgeon isn't "broken" in the sense that the pin sheared but the flat plate actually bent. as for why we didn't have a spare... we do, it just wasn't in the box that it was supposed to be in. I had to basically grab the spares boxes out of the trailer as I was litterally pulled out of the shower by the call. We were packing the truck when i ran out of the room half naked.

Where is Brian with his video camera when we need him? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Pretty quiet here today, I'm sure no news is good news so I'll hijack this thread for a minute to tell Team Moose – Burd that they did a great job even though they had to pull out in Daytona, It was fun watching you and you had lots of fans pulling for you, as has been said on this site before that “Getting to the starting line is usually half the battle”. You guys made it all the way to Key Largo from CT, NY and NJ and were able to compete in the Tybee 500! There are lots of us on this site that can only dream of doing that! Congrats and maybe see you next year at Craig’s again.

Jerry

Team Tybee finished at 4:04 and there are two or three more boats out on the horizon. I guess that's what you call a horizon job.

2nd boat in was Marley's Yellow (Lohmayer)
3rd was Marley's Orange (Jared & Colin)
4th was Cat Fever
5th was Velocity
6th was Accelerated Chaos
and two more boats are in sight.

7th in was Marley's White
8th in was SeaCats
9th will be Cat in the Hat, which is in view.

The thought of Tad naked has killed any motivation to ever film again.

For any of those reading Team Seacats, I'm sorry for leaving you hanging for over an hour and a half...Cat in the Hat are fine - they're mast is broken, the rigging twisted, and the mainsail is toast...but they made a herculean effort to clear away the broken rigging and with the help of Daryl and one of the Mooseburd sailors (I believe Burd...sorry I didn't see exactly which), they marched the boat a mile up the beach in the water and across the finish line. We drove the Team Seacats truck with trailer down the beach to pick up the pieces and spent the last hour or so bringing them back.

They have been offered the spare mast from the Cat Fever team and any rigging from Team Seacats that they may possibly need. I don't believe there was a single team that didn't offer up parts to get them back on the water...they'll be on the line tomorrow with the goal to hit the finish lines for every stop up the coast for the first time (this is their 3rd year)