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Space Coast Invitational 2021 Racing Recap (Wildcard)

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Regatta: Space Coast Invitational 2021. Crew: Greg Florian. Finishing Place: 3rd Place out of 11 boats ( Results Here ). This would be my first time traveling with Greg Florian and we had a ton of fun driving down all the way to Florida for a weekend regatta.  It was a solid performance where we were the fourth best boat and we finished third.   I was hoping we'd have something for Jeff Linton and Bill Bruss and Tom McNally and Andy Hayward after doing so well at Lake Monroe but we just didn't.  There was a Robby Brown racing who I've never met before and he was very good and sailed 3-up so he had some extra weight.  The wind was blowing 20+ and my hands were barely functional after the first race.  Greg was not used to crewing on a Flying Scot and he was battling a learning curve.  I was trying a new brand of gloves and a new mainsheet. They just weren't working.   After the first race, the next two races were pretty much survival and w...