Bo took off at 10:24. I was next at 10:29, then Campbell. As I
climbed up from 1,600' to over 2,000' right over Quest, Bo came back to get over
me and got up under the cloud (cloudbase was 2,500').



We flew north to Groveland as I followed Bo who was still higher than me to a
little cloud. I got there at 1,600' and so I had to stay there even though the
lift was less than 50 fpm. Bo took a couple of turns, thought the lift was too
poor for his attention, and flew over to a cloud to the west. I just had to
stick it out.



We had had 400 fpm over Quest so Bo went looking for better lift. As I slowly
climbed up I saw Bo low to the northwest. I continued to fly very carefully.
Going from cloud to cloud.



As I passed north up highway 33 I saw Bo on the ground. What I didn't know was
that he was calling Rhett Radford to come and haul him out of the field behind
his Dragonfly. Campbell came in below me and we climbed out as Bo turned around
to wait for Rhett.



Campbell went one way and I another but it was still light and I was being
careful. I saw him turning under a cu by the Turnpike but when I got there it
was not holding together. There were cu's to the west moving quickly to the
north. I raced in that direction on the north side of the turnpike and found 400
fpm at 900'. Campbell had gone further north.



Climbing up and jumping over to the south end of the villages, I had to wait and
then turn back to find lift as it looked poor ahead. The cu's were pretty
plentiful now, but nothing nearby to the north looked all that good. I got stuck
and had to work light lift to stay up.



About this time Campbell was going down on the north side of the Villages. He
had raced to a cloud that didn't produce any lift. Meanwhile I was in contact
with Belinda who said that she had just seen Bo on the ground near the Turnpike.
Turns out that Bo had landed twice.



The flight was difficult as I continually had to work light lift to 4,000'.
There were lots of cu's, but they weren't lining up into streets. I was
continually working to the northwest to get under better looking clouds and
hoping to get to the possible convergence. Despite the weak lift the air was
rough and quite unpleasant.



I had to work around Payne's Prairie, which is a large swamp and found myself
using lots of little fires at sources of lift. As I got near Gainesville I
noticed that the wind had changed and was now out of the west. Not good for a
record flight.



I kept going hoping that the convergence would kick in but it never did. Finally
I just had had enough of the rough conditions and landed 120 miles out.



No record on this day. Kevin Carter holds the Florida state record of 208 miles
for a flex wing.