After three weeks, the Race to Alaska is done. The way this thing works around here, you are either a "junkie" or completely oblivious about this Super Event that no one has ever heard of. I fall into the junkie category. This year's race was just as spectacular as prior years, especially in terms of creating stories (the whole purpose for sailing a boat). What was remarkable this year was how the Organizers gathered up a passel of social media...
I have to figure out how to live here. Yesterday my family stopped by for a visit, and Matt heard someone congratulate the sail boat making it's way into the marina. That boat was the winner (first to reach Ketchikan) of R2AK. So I got a chance to check out their bikes driving propellers. This morning I'm drinking coffee and reading the news and a sail boat came in that I recognized. I was crew on my best friend's sail boat in the 1980's and...
I'm here for my annual visit to the Pt Hudson Marina and RV Park, something I always enjoy. The RV park offers spaces at quite premium prices, which folk gladly pay. I choose one of the two dry camp spaces to save money, but also because it's the closest to the marina proper. Very coveted spaces as I discovered the first year of the Race to Alaska. Excellent weather is in the forecast for the next week.
Another Race to Alaska commences Monday (see R2AK.com) and I'll be hanging out tomorrow at the pre-race festivities. But in the meantime, the organizers of that race put another event together called the Seventy48. The idea is strictly human-powered watercraft, no motors or sails, going from Tacoma to Port Townsend in less than 48 hours. It's 70 miles. The race started last evening at 7pm, and the first boat across the line was 10 hours later...