We know, we know, it hurts. If you want to make yourself feel even worse by hearing about and seeing what a glorious time the participants had there are various accounts coming in. One is from Martin Chambers and can be found in ‘Southern Wooden Boat Sailing’ here. Despite the name of the publication, Martin actually rowed the event with Kerryn (in Rowbob).
By contrast Gary Hardy recorded his Raid on video, He wites: ‘I was too busy hanging on for most of the raid to record the really exciting bits, but hopefully this gives some idea of what the adventure was like from the deck of Derry’. Given the size of Derry what he has done is amazing. See below or at https://youtu.be/glKVnrFJTwo