Sorry that we did not get around to posting yesterday. We were out on the beach celebrating every one’s arrival and busy stacking boats until well after dark. After quite an endeavour, all 5 of the Team Velocity boats successfully finished the race this year! Despite all of the broken rudders, ripped spinnakers and other issues, everyone made it to shore in Tybee. Carrie and JC finished fourth for the day yesterday, followed by Trey and Alan in 8th. Brad and Don finally beat Tad and Bailey to the beach, they were bragging quite a lot about that yesterday, finishing 15th. Tad and Bailey pulled in six minutes later in 17th. Brett and Alan rounded out the day in 21st after ripping their jib. Everyone was very elated to have finished the race and be on dry land once again. Tad said that he didn’t want to step foot on the boat for another 2 months at least and everyone has pretty much sworn off eating any more Power Bars and Gatorade for the time being. Congrats to all the sailors on a great race and a job well done!
Team Velocity Sailors celebrating the finish of the 2009 Tybee 500
The overall results can be found at the Tybee 500 webpage. For our team, JC and Carrie finished second overall with a corrected time of 2 days, one hour thirty five minutes and thirty seven seconds. That’s a long time on the water! Trey and Alan sailed into 6th place, Tad and Bailey captured 19th, Brad and Don were close behind in 21st and Brett and Alan finished 22nd.
Special thanks to our ground crew for their hard work and dedication this week! They made everything run smoothly, completed midnight repairs, drove trailors from waypoint to waypoint, coordinated hotel rooms, acted as sherpas for all of the sailors 5000 bags, and encouraged our guys to finish each leg no matter what challenge was presented. Everyone appreciates your commitment this week!
The 2009 Team Velocity Ground Crew grabbing some BBQ
Now it’s time to rinse all the sand off the gear, wash some stinky knee pads and swim trunks and slip back into our daily lives.
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