UPDATE: Nearly 90 Stand Up Paddle in Windy Rain to Honor Friend and Help his Son
Steve Adler was an SUP racer who died of an aneurysm like John Ritter's. Racing pals braved downpour for nearly 3 miles.
Updated Monday with amount raised. Undaunted by wind and driving rain, some 90 stand up and belly down paddlers launched off the Leeway Sailing Center beach Sunday in a race honoring Steve Adler, a well-known SUP who died suddenly last March. Dubbed the Adler Paddler, the 2.8-mile race around Naples Island raised $8,000 through sales of t-shirts and raffle tickets for high end SUP gear like a $1,700 racing board donated by Riveria Paddlesurf, and other donated prizes from water sport manufacturers. The money will go to a college fund for Adler's son, Clark, and to the John Ritter Foundation, created after the actor died of an aortic aneurysm. Braving miserable weather for a vertical row, the group of 90 paddlers--plus towel- and blanket-…
