2006 Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race

 (report by Dave Coffey) After a good clean start the crew of the sailing yacht Carinthia skipper Frank Kern, Jay Schmit, Dave Coffey, Tim Profit, Ken Morrison, Ray Adams, Jeff Henderson, and Dave Brace are about 2 miles from the Miami Sea Bouy. We have 12 knots of air doing 8.2 knots with a code zero up. In the evening the sky had become overcast with temps in the upper 70's. Jay was cranky. Evening dinner of fried chicken and pasta salad was served abeam to Rooster Reff around 7:00 pm. The skipper proved to be an excellent cook. We divided the crew in to a watch schedule for the evening. First watch was Kern, Coffey, Henderson and Profit.

Second watch was Schmit, Adams, Morrison and Brace. We did manage to get Ray off the helm sometime during the evening. Late night was a evening with light winds around midnight, then building around 4:00 am to a condition with a beam reach. In morning we had a sunny sky with temps in the mid 70's wind from the North at 12 - 14 knots. Sailing along at 8.5 to 9 knots with the .6 spin up at 15 nm from the Key West Sea Bouy. We had a 5 nm weather leg to the finish.

Result: 3 out of 7
Link to results: http://www.keywestrace.org/pdf/2006results-phrf.pdf