(from Nathan) The day only continued to throw challenges after my last post. We spent a lot of the night fixing various problems including a spinnaker guy which decided twice that it didn't like being cleated off in the autotailer. The failure mode was interesting, too- rather than simply cut loose it decided to suddenly ease itself about 30 ft and then catch again. Driving through a squall turns out to be much more challenging with the foot of the spinnaker halfway up the mast and swinging freely back and forth in front of the boat. Anyway, we've hopefully got workarounds and fixes for the various problems and were back racing by 0230 Pacific time. Our 0800 to 0800 run wasn't actually anywhere near as bad as we expected (200 over the ground, 196 miles made good) and while ET seems to have 1st in division locked up absent a serious mistake or gear failure, Sapphire is still reachable though comfortably ahead and we seem to have stretched out our lead on Por Favor, the 4th place boat and a Hobie 33, somehow.