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Slow Track to Havana

Source: It’s slow going as the crew tries to eke out boatspeed on the way south

We called it quits at midnight, about 20 miles north of the Dry Tortugas. For Russ Hoadley, owner of the Catalina 425 Blue Heron, and his crew, the rst St. Petersburg- Habana race in 58 years was over.

Since late a ernoon we’d been inching down the Florida coast in what was usually more or less the right direction, south, but sometimes north, east or west, depending on the whims of the ckle zephyrs

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