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Sunday—Race-day! And a quick DNF.

Powered-up. In the water. Buoyancy set. Then, rotated toward the starting line and punched it—blew a FET. Here is the RCA on cause of lost propulsion early in the race.

There were many dry-trials and two wet sessions where the bot performed maneuvers with a distance exceeding the expected course. In fact, the wind and waves of the latest test session exceeded that of race-day. We were so close to completing the primary challenge.