We started a couple of minutes behind the fleet, because of mechanical problems, but got to the first mark in the lead. Never looked back, led all 155 miles in the Saturday Key West Worlds in 1990.
After the race, Chairman of the Board (Cougar cat with Lambos) tried to get us disqualified, because when the race started, we had to go the wrong way (against traffic) to get from the pits to the starting line. It was a bull-$hit protest (we hugged the sea wall, and were never close to the other boats), and it got tossed.
The engine hatch was flying around because we didn't have time to re-attach the ram after Bob Laytham solved our steering problem.