Since most of our recent sailing had been on flat water, it took me quite a few hours to adapt to the Hatteras chop, and I had no change getting anywhere close to Dean's speed or total distance. After sailing about 100 km, I had to stop because my legs muscles were burning too much, but that was enough to get us a #2 spot among 36 teams in the distance ranking on GPSTC for the month :) We are also ranked #3 in the 1 hour ranking, and #8 overall - the best we've even been. Of course, its early in the month, and many other teams will improve their numbers - but we have have a few more days down here, too. I'm dying to see what a downwinder would do to our 1 hour averages...
Even Nina got into the speed spirit yesterday. She set two new PBs, improving her distance by 25%. At a cost, of course - she limited her freestyle to just a few shove it and 360 tries. Maybe she'll try a bit more today, although the averages have just picked up to 30 mph.
