Stage 1: Port Townsend to Victoria
Team name: Team KELP
Team members: Kristin Pederson and Elena Losey
Race vessel: Santana 20
Application Excerpts:
- BA in English Literature
- Lasers and 420s on Lake Michigan during a four-week course
- Googled, “I want to work on a boat.” And started working on the good Schooner Adventuress. As Deckhand Educator, Safety Officer, Medical Officer Relief Engineer (poop pumper)
- Once made eye contact with a minke whale
- STCW Basic Safety Training Wilderness EMT/ M-PIC class: those think-on-your-feet life-saving skills that will be useful in the race, yada yada
- Run the boat rentals at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle for three years, where it’s beautiful and amazing and shit breaks ALL THE TIME
- Good at MacGyvering and am very proud of it
- Getting a job in accounting
- Chaco tan (double-strap!) so epic it lasts year round
- WINNER of the R2AK 2015 photo contest!
- Can pickle anything
- Dive master in Thailand, bumped noses with a whale shark
- Sailed from SEA to SFO
- VanIsle 360 2015
- Haven’t had the flu or common cold in at least a decade, but have had dengue fever in Thailand and swine flu in South Korea
- USCG captain
- Hitchhiked on a boat up the cost of Portugal
- Bought a fucking boat! take some more of our cash. Please.
Team Kelp, medically helpful and medically in need, a perfect combo. Welcome to the Race to Alaska
