Duckworks 4th Annual
Messabout

12 - 13 - 14 May 2006
at Magnolia Beach, Texas at the south side of Matagorda Bay
Between Houston and Corpus Christi, Texas.


Report on the Cruise/Raid sailing to the Messabout from Port Mansfield and Rockport. - Thanks Noel for all the work -


The Duckworks Messabout took place at Magnolia Beach on Saturday, 13 May 2006. - Thanks Chuck -
The World race of Puddle Duck Racers was held, and a good time was had by all. - Thanks Shorty -
See Shortys prelinary on the race. and
PDRacer .com for general information on PD Racers, and I assume a race report fairly soon.

-------- preliminary maps for the cruise/raid ----------


launching at Cove Harbor at the southern edge of Rockport

Detail of launch area



crossing San Antonio Bay


continuing on across Espiritu Santo Bay and overnighting at Matagorda State Park
(mostly a wildlife preserve, no facilities, no water).
The park area is approximatley where the - D - in the word ISLAND is shown on the map above.


final part of trip on past Port O Connor and up Matagorda Bay to Magnolia Beach.

Waypoints and charts for this trip are available in the FILES section of the PDS-TX Yahoo group.
You need to be a member of this group to have access to these files.
Membership in this Yahoo group is a fairly simple thing.
Click on the -join- note near the top of the page you may receive when clicking on the link above (FILES) and follow the instructions.
JNN has done a lot of work to provide this information.

updated 19 May 2006 - just after midnight


The 2006 Duckworks Messabout page on this site.

The 2005 Duckworks Messabout page on this site.

The 2004 Duckworks Messabout page on this site.

A 2003 Duckworks Messabout page on this site.

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