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He's makin' tracks. The concept of 220 mile days kinda blows me away. When he comes back I hope he takes Chanagabang on the next SHTP....records might fall. I mean...two days and he's almost 500 miles along the track on a course not all that different from a SHTP course.
There is very little chance a Class 40 could break the Open 50 record of 8 days, 12 hours...... of course if the stars aligned it's possible. To give a comparison a much lighter, faster, longer, fully crewed J/125 won the Transpac overall with an elapsed of 8 days 16 hours. That would be hard to do on a fast year for a Class 40 solo. It's hard to believe how much harder a fully crewed boat can push, especially overnight.