With the Race 2 Alaska canceled this year, the Northwest Maritime Center is preparing to kick off two other races: the Seventy48 and the inaugural WA360.
The center plans to closely follow …
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With the Race 2 Alaska canceled this year, the Northwest Maritime Center is preparing to kick off two other races: the Seventy48 and the inaugural WA360.
The center plans to closely follow both races to provide fans with updates on standings and course developments.
With more than 115 teams readying to compete in the human-powered race, the Seventy48 will kick off June 4.
The competition is set to be stiff as boats take to the start line at Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway. Participants will have 48 hours to travel the 70 miles from the line in Tacoma, up to Port Townsend with only two checkpoints along the way.
The inaugural WA360 start gun will sound on June 7 as participants depart from Port Townsend and make their way across some of Washington’s trickiest navigable waters.
Unlike the R2AK, participants may keep an engine aboard, but if they use it, they’re eliminated. Participants may use sail and human power over the course of two weeks to reach the end of the course, back at the maritime center.
The course will carry the racers around the Olympia Shoal in Budd Inlet, within a mile of Goat Island, Bellingham and Point Roberts before returning to Port Townsend.
Those who will not be participating in the races can still subscribe to race updates by visiting https://nwmaritime.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=cb069e2ef93881d477105d51f&id=b573b772ee.
