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MetroMPG · 09-11-2008, 06:55 PM

Update from the race course!

One of the new crew brought a laptop with a cell phone modem, and we've got one bar.

Quite the afternoon so far. Snagged and removed two lobster traps, wind all over the map. DFL off the start line, but we've managed to ghost past the schooner Virginia in a dying breeze.

Currently we're becalmed. Well, drifting at .2 knots.

I'm going to try uploading a pic if the connection doesn't die first.

09-11-2008, 06:55 PM	#41 (permalink)
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