Yeah, the our Paddles worked hard to make it a pretty fun time, yet were obviously still hard on us. There were frustrating days at Joe, and there were some awesome ones where you couldn't wait to do it. I had some butterflies manning up at North Island heading out to the boat, but as soon as I got abeam, it was pretty much something I had seen hundreds of times. I remember thinking as I was crossing the wake the first time "damn this looks just like the sim", and compared to flying the FCLP pattern on a bad wind day, it was MUCH easier to fly the ball at the boat. The first day was a little bit intense, but it was awesome to spend the night out there, sitting up on the flight deck with my buds, BS'ing about everything. I don't remember much of the next day after we got back to the beach. I do remember having about the worst vertigo of my life on the trip home riding trunk through some bad weather between OKC and Meridian, which was probably the most unnerving part of the whole thing. Luckily for our section, all 4 of us had it lol