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“What is the question you get most often?”
“What are you thinking?!”
Heath Daughtry is the VP of Sales at Yellowfin and he asked me to join him this year for the Florida Skiff Challenge. I sat down with Heath Daughtry to talk about the Florida Skiff Challenge while back on the podcast (listen below). This event is no joke - you get in a Skiff (18ft or less boat) with a 70 horse-power or less motor. You take that boat around Key West and end in Cabin Bluff, GA. This event is 1,600 miles and you go for 48 hours nonstop. You don’t sleep.
The people who invented this craziness were Heath Daughtry and Chase Daniel of Yellowfin. They started out just doing it by themselves, and this will be the 6th year into it and there are quite a few teams involved now. It has become a real event and is super cool. But what makes it even cooler is that they have partnered up the race with Captains For Clean Water. Here are the teams:
Team Hell’s Bay
Team Yellowfin
Team Cayo
Team Key West
Team Angler Pro
In the beginning, Heath and Chase started out trying to test the electronics, motor, boat and themselves in an endurance challenge. They started on the Florida/Alabama state line and the plan was to go through Apalachicola go down the gulf coast, through Lake Okeechobee and end in Sarasota. The goal was to do it in 24 hours. Once they set out they didn’t account for nature intervening, fatigue coming into effect and difficulty communicating with the land team. They ended up in Biscane Bay and pulled in to Bears Cut. At about 3/4 of the way through their journey, it had already been 48 hours…. Check out the full podcast for more information on the Skiff Challenge:
Watch the Yellowfin Video on YouTube
Follow @floridaskiffchallenge for updates and more!
See you next time,
Tom Rowland