all got repaired- the gudgeons had been screwed on, were replaced at a beach stop with bolts. I cracked one leg of the tiller on Traveler, but managed to nurse it in to Paul's Mott. Travis had a pull saw and drill aboard, so I shortened it, re drilled and was good to go. Several others broke rudders and some broke spars.

I don't know the exact count but I THINK 65 boats signed up and 47 or 48 finished.

I had a friend bring truck and trailer to ICW and hauled out early- took 4 hours to sail the 7 miles form Army Hole to the ICW- zero wind a good bit of that time. My crew paddled the boat for over a mile after we watched the GPS read 0.0 for 40 minutes. Finally got some wind, took NINE tacks to get through the cut, then once into ICW, wind was (if you can believe in Texas, in June) NORTH EAST!! Six tacks in the ICW and we had passed ONE house. So we gave it up. Would have been dark by the time we made Magnolia Beach and the shrimp boil would have been over. Still took over 1 1/2 hours to make it the 4 miles to the fish camp where I hauled out. And you KNOW if Traveler is sailing THAT slowly, we had almost NO wind

There were 15 Puddle Duckers sailing, for Live Strong, they had contributions of almost 10 grand, and ALL of them made it. They had to stop in a couple of alternate places due to heavy winds early on ( evening of the first leg we clocked 34 mph, but they were reaching winds, in a land cut, so no waves. And on the last day, they got out and dragged the bloats along shore in the ICW due to no wind. Later the winds filled, and shifted SE so they managed to finish. I have to say- those guys have LARGE Cojones

I sailed that first day under a reefed foresail only and was logging 8- 9, with a high of 9.9

I'm sure not many on here know what a PDR is, so here's a pic. The boats are 8 feet long and 4 feet wide. Almost all sails were polytarp standing lugs