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Gulf Grit

TEXAS 200 The 12th annual trip is June 10-14 from Port Mansfield to Port Lavaca. texas200.com

They say the Texas 200 eats rudders.

And if you ask Rachel Doss, who headed into the bay near Port Mansfield on her 13-foot sailboat last year, she’d probably agree. Before the sun set on Day 1 of the five-day floating convoy up the Texas coast, she had to give in to the whims of Mother Nature.

Her little boat, named Guppy, was skimming right along on wind gusts of

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