Talking About Adventure In Small Boats
Position 44 13 44.338 n 88 33 26.47 w
At home, been ready and packed for a week, planning to leave for Florida Sunday morning, February 19, spending a week scouting the course from each of the checkpoints. Having nightmares that after 10 months of preparation, I do something stupid, and have a wreck driving down.
This is a good race report for practice. My only input is that the EC2012 tag is missing.
Also, when practicing it might be good to add a "Practice" tag. Usually I go through and delete all practice race reports the night before the race starts.
MicroTom
Key Master
Wow! Thats a long drive. Hope its safe and enjoyable. Wish I was able to break away that far ahead of the race too. Take lots of pics and post as much as you can.
SmittyPaddler has a great title for a race reporting thread. He has added the EC2012 tag and has his TribalName and his crew's TribalName as tags as well. A correctly formatted title along with the essential tags are extremely important if these logs are going to make sense and be easy to find. Adding the boat name in the title and tags is not needed but certainly OK.
Now a little tweak to the position information. It is fine to add lat/lon to the post but be very careful. In previous years this information has proven to be very error prone and unreliable. So go ahead and add it if you want, but it isn't that useful.
A better way to add position information is to describe your location in relation to the CPs or a map feature. For example, "About 10 miles north of CP2" is much more descriptive than the same info as lat/lon. Or something like "Just rounding Cape Sable" adds a bit of spice to your post.
Always add a tidbit regarding your mental, physical, and spiritual state. Something like "I'm feeling good and doing well" is what we want to hear. But if it is more like "I'm crying and scared s%&*less" well then we can all get a good laugh ha ha.
Practice msg from Jim.....Be safe....
Smitty checked in OK at Lat 37.09907 and Lon 88.68408 just northwest of Paducah KY
Got all 50 updates....looked like a good loop.....
appears all working good...
Jim
post from Jim....all seems to be working with the SPOT tracking...was there some kind of practice that was supposed to take place before the race with this site????
Hey Jim,
This is Smitty. This is practice. Saturday is just more of the same, except it'll be for real.
Be safe Thomas......and have fun....
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