PD Furthest Road Trip
There are many endurance races amongst sailors, such as the Everglades Challenge & Ultimate Florida Challenge, Mini Transat, Transpac, Vendee Globe etc. The thrill is not nescessarily evaluating the relative speed of the competitors, but the ability of the skipper to endure a seeming endless struggle to continue through fatigue, boredom, and perilous danger. In our little PD world, the equivalent we have is the road trip - which really is filled with all those factors, on the highways travelling to distant places & Puddle Duck events. This challenge is about making that trip to the far side of the world, with your PD.

Road Trip Rules:
1 - Distance is measured in actual road miles travelled, one way to the destination. (not as crow flies)
2 - You must personally transport your boat, in your posession, from your home to the destination.
3 - You must be in charge, or partly in charge of the transportation vehicle. Riding a train / bus / airplane with it in the storage compartment doesn't count.
4 - "Your boat" means a boat which you personally use. Trips delivering boats to other people doesn't count.
5 - The hull must be 3D and class legal from the start. Transporting a disassembled boat doesn't count.
6 - The hull must be launched into water at the destination, and the skipper must be in the boat, floating in it. That is then considered the destination, and the distance between your home and that location is the distance recorded.
7 - The hull does not need to be setup with a sail or anything else, it only needs to float free with the skipper in it.


2007 Record
4-1-07 record: 1605 miles by Peter "Midge" Hyndman [click here]

2006 Record
5-13-06 record: 1152 miles by Tim Cleary - drove From Greenville, SC to Magnolia Beach, TX for the 2006 PD Racer World Championship Races
date?? record: 315.72 miles by Jason Nabors (birthday challenge race), details soon
3-8-06 record: 230 miles by Andrew Creamer [article]
3-2-06 record: 176 miles by Andrew Linn [article]

2005 Record
9-23-05 record: 511 miles by Bruce Anderson [article]
5-10-05 record: 17 miles by David "Shorty" Routh [article]

2004 Record
10-3-04 record: 253 miles by Andrew Linn [article]