Sunday, June 26, 2011

The big day is here!

The last official race day started with a final debrief that was mandatory for all racers. The judges reported that this was a good clean race with only 18 potential rule violations that had to be investigated, of which 5 were eliminated after investigation. This might seem like a lot, but when you multiply almost 50 race teams by 6 stops by the number of rules, it's really quite small. As I reported yesterday, team Cool Beans had zero penalties so none of the 18 were ours.

Then we went upstairs to receive our handicap from Marvin, and sign off our completed score sheet. Our final handicap is 139.82 knots for our Cessna Skylane C182S, which seems about right. We are getting very excited to hear the results which will be announced at the banquet tonight! In the meantime, Linda and Barbara have gone to church with instructions to pray, and I went to the gym, then we'll have a few free hours this afternoon to explore Mobile before the big reveal tonight.