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We
left Hampton, Virginia (the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge Tunnel) at 9:40 am on Monday
July 10, 2000. 105 hours and 31 minutes
later we crossed the finish line at the
Spit Buoy outside the Town Cut channel
that leads to St Georges Harbor.
We
finished first in our class, which made
all of us fell pretty good. The first
two days of the trip over were quite
rough – heavy seas and winds. To go
anywhere on the boat seemed to involve
climbing up hill. We had some sail
damage, which we were able to get fixed
in Bermuda.
Our stay in Bermuda
was great.
We left St Georges
at approx 9:30 Sunday July 9, 2000. We
headed for Ocracoke, NC instead of
Hampton, VA to avoid the long trip
(bridges and locks) down the ICW.
Unfortunately, we ran into the south end
of a cold eddy and could not get out of
it. We had 4 knot currents on the bow
for 24 hours. We entered the inlet at
about 7:30 am Saturday July 15, 200 but
lost about an hour when we went aground
on an unmarked shoal that had moved out
into the channel. After a stop for fuel,
ice cream and a pepsi in Ocracoke, we
headed for Columbia. We arrived at 1:30
am Sunday morning.
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