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It took a while to decide on a task today. The forecast didn't forecast the sea
breeze (to get as far as Quest), but given the fact that it was a forecast for
winds (light, on average) from the southwest, and that the day before, in
similar conditions, the sea breeze came in early, and the fact that when the
cu's popped, which they did early, it looked like there were no cu's to the west
of the Green Swamp (as we looked out from Quest), we put up the secondary task,
which kept us east of the Green Swamp. Finally the task committee decided
through a group process to go for the secondary task, and then we shortened it
in an open discussion with the pilots, not going as far north, changing a 166 km
task to a 122 km one.



The cu's popped much earlier than the RUC forecast gave for them (probably
hotter on the ground than the RUC forecast called for) and we moved the task
forward to start launching at 12:45 (we could have launched at 11:30) and task
start at 1:45, 2:00, and 2:15 PM. The question was, was that too late given the
chance of the sea breeze coming?



I was off after Tom and Pete, found strong lift at the south end of the field
and pinned off, but lost it and had to work my way up from 500 feet AGL.
Thankfully a bird came by and showed better lift a little to the east over more
trees.



There were plenty of cu's and it was easy to move south to get into position for
the start. The start cylinder was 5 km, our smallest so far, with a first leg to
Dean Still and 33rd, then back up to the airfield at Baron just north of the
Florida Turnpike, then back to Quest.



We were getting up to 5,800', still below cloud base, but plenty high. At 1:40 I
was high but lost 1,000' in the next few minutes and decided to wait for the
second clock. Stinnet, Durand, Glennon and Ridley went. Followed by Shaprio,
Carter, Heilman, Lanning, Dunn, Lehman, and others.



The first four got out in front quickly not stopping while the others did, taking
a climb a mere two kilometers on the course line. It looked to me at first that
they might just come back for a second start time.



Jamie on a Phantom, Jonny, Mike and Lucas went for almost thirteen kilometers
not finding lift after passing up the first thermal next to the start circle.
Down low they tried to work something that Jamie found but didn't get up. Only
Jamie was high enough to get out of that hole and find other lift, after getting
low again. Jonny, Mike and Lucas all landed sixteen to eighteen kilometers down
the course line.



Just a couple of us took the next start clock. Dustin, O'Brien, and Zac took the
third and moved quickly down the course. Too quickly for Dustin as he landed
after finding one thermal to over 7,000' at 700 fpm. He got 24 km down the
course line.



O'Brien and Zippy went to a cloud street far west of the course line and made
great time catching me near the first turnpoint. I had thought that I was moving
fast catching the guys in front of me, but then I was caught from behind.



It took a bit of work in broken lift to get away from the Dean Still and highway
33 intersection so now I was behind O'Brien and Majors, but I got back to
5,300', which was comfortable, and went on glide to find the next thermal under
one of the many clouds ahead.



That turned into a 15 km glide down to 1,000' AGL, where I finally found lift
next to highway 33. I spent the next thirty three minutes climbing out of that
hole listening to Jeff and Zac click off the miles. I couldn't hear from Shapiro
as his PTT was unhooked, but he was out ahead. Glen Volk came and joined me at
2,000' and we struggled around together for a while.



I could hear Zac and Jeff approaching the turnpoint at Baron as I raced to at
least get near them after finally getting high again. This turned into another
15 km glide, but this time I didn't get low and at the end the cu's were
working. I climbed back to over 5,000' glided north west to a dark looking cloud,
found 800 fpm and climbed to over 6,500'. Things were much improved.



There was a large dark cloud over the turnpoint. I was high so the forested area
before the turnpoint was no problem. The dark cloud was promising. I got the
turnpoint high and coming back found good lift under the dark cu and took it
back to 6,500' The numbers to goal were positive, but it was a bit of a
headwind, although most of the wind was from the west.



I was gliding under cu's heading south but made an error in judgment. Given that
I had just flown to the west to get under a dark cu before the turnpoint and
found the best lift of the flight, I figured to keep to the west toward the
sunshine but under the cu's just ahead of me (and all the way to goal). I
figured sun on the ground and cu's overhead (the sun was in the western sky)
would be a good combination. I favored it over the shaded ground on the course
line and downwind of the course line to the east.



This was a key mistake. The sea breeze had now kicked in. And what had been true
twenty minutes earlier was no longer true, even though there were plenty of cu's
to the west, they were in fact in the process and being cleared out by the sea
breeze and my recent success going to the west, getting under a dark cu and over
sunny ground was not to be repeated.



I searched and searched under cu's and over hot ground, but there was nothing. I
landed at the Grass Roots airfield 13 km from Quest. The satellite photos showed
the western sea breeze eating up the cu's.



Jeff Shapiro was first into goal.

#	Pilot	Country	Glider	Time	Total Points
1.	Jeff O'Brien	USA	Wills Wing T2C 144	02:29:47	964
2.	Zac Majors	USA	Wills Wing T2C 144	02:30:17	948
3.	Carl Wallbank	GBR	Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5	02:36:10	862
4.	Jeff Shapiro	USA	Wills Wing T2C 144	02:53:36	810
5.	Kevin Carter	USA	Will Wing T2 154	02:53:47	808
6.	Konrad Heilman	BRA	Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5	02:54:37	799
7.	Tom Lanning	USA	Wills Wing T2C 144	02:59:45	750
8.	Ben Dunn	CAN	Moyes Litespeed RS 3.5	03:03:04	720
9.	Pete Lehmann	USA	Wills Wing T2 154	03:04:12	710
10.	Glen Volk	USA	Moyes Litespeed RS 4	02:58:07	669

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