To experience it on the water at maximum current is as exhilarating as it is-to use the epithetical and nautical parlance of our times-f-bombingly unnerving.
It is, and will ever be, but Seymour is different up close. While Cape Scott is the newly anointed and geographic climax of the outside route, in the not-yet-conceived-of, warranted, or desired “R2AK: the Video Game,” Seymour Narrows remains the the inside route’s stalwart and challenging first-level boss.Īnyone experiencing R2AK through the warm blanket of the internet can call it a tidal gate. …and now everyone should knock a piece of non-floating wood, again.
Now.Īt time of writing, Team Pure & Wild are making more than 8 knots, and have 400 or so miles to go, putting them in as the presumptive favorite for fastest outside team, and in the running for fastest monohull ever. However, logs are everywhere, hubris and jinxes are real, so for the health and safety of everyone onboard, everyone reading this should knock a non-floating piece of wood right now. Barring logs or any other catastrophe, while we fear the jinx potential of saying this out loud, with the nearest team horizons away and no one anywhere near their boat speed, it looks like it’s their race to lose. Weather models are flawed at best, but at this point it’s looking like a speedy downwinder to the pin, and then downwind again into Ketchikan glory. Team Pure & Wild, the loaded Riptide 44 with Jonathan McKee, Matt Pistay, and Alyosha Strum-Palerm, made history by being the first R2AK team to round Cape Scott at roughly 19:30 and balanced their definitive right turn out of Victoria with a veer to the right towards the checkpoint in Bella Bella. What we do know is that after a Profanity of Driftwood retired, any chance of an inside-team win fueled by anything other than a leaderboard catastrophe, and the “flock of log” debate was definitively settled by the global citizens of R2AK’s Tracker Nation.
#Port townsend monthly tide graph 2019 crack#
We don’t know how Team Stern Wheelin’s fresh R2AK tattoo is healing up, or how any part of “Racing” to Alaska includes Team Sockeye Voyages getting on the water at the crack of 2:30 pm. We don’t know why Team High Seas Drifters is heading so far west along Vancouver Island rather than jumping across towards Cape Caution with the rest. We’re still waiting for reports of just how gnarly it got on the west side of Vancouver Island. Up and down R2AK’s elongating geography, we’re hustling via boat, car, plane, and internet to connect with the ever shrinking field of competitors to find out just what the hell is going on. For those that survived, they started the remaining 710 miles on June 16 to Ketchikan, AK. After the race was cancelled in 20, the 6th edition of the 750 mile Race to Alaska (R2AK) began June 13 with a 40-mile “proving stage” from Port Townsend, WA to Victoria, BC.