Hello Race Fans,
The Division A fleet that left on Monday at 1:05pm, blazed through the GG Bridge reaching speeds up to 10+ knots over the course of the night. Thirty-three hours into the fun and we heard from the crew - they are in fourth place along side some contenders from the Spring 08 Race Season and looking for bigger winds to carry them into HI in 12 days. So far, the crew is doing well and the skipper seems pleased with the overall standings.
Attached are the photos as promised yesterday. Missing from the team picture is Eric and while I tried to draw him in using photo shop, he will be thankful that I aborted that effort! Also included are some pictures of the fleet heading out of the gate. No Ka Oi is the boat on the far right side. All were sent in rather large format so you can enlarge, if you are so inclined.
We promised a sight where you could follow No Ka Oi on their journey to HI. This is the official race sight and all pictures / map points are delayed by 4 hours (sometimes a little more). Current race standings show that this morning they are indeed in 4th place (stats below).
The Pacific Cup race site is: http://pacificcup.org/08/positions/pc08-prd1.html.
All boats are required to check-in between 9-10am PDT and the results will be posted by noon of the same day.
For those of you that are a little more impatient and need information as real time as they will allow us to have it, follow them via satelight, at:http://trackinfo.fistracking.com/pc2008/
The website is a little challenging but you can see reports of everything they are doing including the other boats in the fleet. We played with the sight a little and have figured out how to chart everything on the paper chart.
Many of you have sent well wishes and the crew appreciates your thoughts. Think good wind and 12 or fewer days!
All the best from the No Ka Oi LBS (Land Based Crew),
Gayle (and Jane)
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