Ted used to exagerate and say the wind was in our face all the time. I estimate we had about 24 hours of real sailing. (no pedalling) I encountered one stretch where we were on a beam reach for 7 hours straight in 25 to 35 mph winds, and that was one rough and scary day.
The winds had to be favorable and greater than 8 mph before we had enough speed to quit pedalling. With the small main, we had to be more than 60 degrees off the wind to power up, and when we were going close to weather we usually had to pedal also. Whenever the winds were light and favorable it did make our pedalling easier. In many cases the apparant wind made Ted think it was in our faces. On many occaisions the wind would change direction with the river course to keep it in our faces through a 180 degree bend.
We pedalled for about 88 days out of our 99 days. We had about 7 days where we stayed off the river, mostly due to storms or severe headwinds. We spent two days in Greenville to rest. We were exhausted then.
Arlene and I used a Cannon G2, but I lowered the resoulution on the web page to allow faster loading on the internet.
Money raised?
The last I heard a month ago was about $5000 (that's less than what we spent on the mission), but I hope that future publicity that Ted gets and the web pages might generate more awareness and potentially more contributions.
People along the river will be talking about the unique, crazy boat they saw for a long time.

Greg
H14,H16
p.s. My boat is anxious to be descummed and fully dressed for the 2004 spring sailing. To see a shot of the boat in action try http://cureals.home.att.net/pedal.jpg