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Race to Alaska 2026
- The Race Is On Ketchikan Daily News
Race to Alaska 2024
- Profile: Jeanne Goussev Sails Like a Girl, Lives Like a Wolf Sail Magazine
- Three women in a boat: how girl (and pedal) power helped us finish a 750-mile race to Alaska The Guardian
- Wildcat’s Wild Race to Alaska Sailing World
- Port Ed rolls out red carpet for Alaska boat racers The Northern View
- 2024 R2AK comes to a close with last 2 finishers Ketchikan Daily News
- Third time’s a charm: Chilliwack sailing team finally finishes 1200-km race Langley Advance Times
- 19 teams have now finished R2AK 2024 Ketchikan Daily News
- Orcas teens return from 710-mile boat race to Alaska Islands’ Sounder
- Races show you’re never too old, or too young, to pedal a sailboat to Alaska KRBD
- Victoria team wins 750-mile engineless boat race from Washington to Alaska Victoria News
- First all-Canadian team wins the 8th Race to Alaska Sail World
- First Canadian victory in the Race to Alaska 2024 Boat News
- Alaska-bound Team Juvenile Delinquents pushes up the strait Salish Current
- Racers show you’re never too old, or too young, to pedal a sailboat to Alaska Rainbird Community Radio
- Team Malolo wins 2024 R2AK Ketchikan Daily News
- Victoria trimaran crew sails to victory in Race to Alaska, breaking ‘the curse’ Times Colonist
- Racers restart in Victoria on their way to Alaska Peninsula Daily News
- Intrepid seagoers set sail on self-reliant Race to Alaska CBC/Radio-Canada
- A motley fleet hits the water for offbeat, no-motor race to Alaska Times Colonist
- More muscle than wind in Phase 2 of Racek to Alaska Peninsula Daily News
- Windy start hampers several craft in Race to Alaska Peninsula Daily News
- The Race to Alaska is On Sail Magazine
- Ready to R2AK? 2024 edition of 750-mile race starts Sunday Ketchikan Daily News
- Racing: A Marshall Cat Takes on the R2AK by Sail Magazine
- Orcas Island teens to compete in Race to Alaska by Islands’ Sounder
Race to Alaska 2023
- Race to Alaska set to return to Ketchikan this summer by KRBD
- Michigan Boating Trio to Compete In Rigorous ‘Race to Alaska’ by 9 & 10 News
- No-motor race to Alaska begins, with $10,000 and steak knives on the line by Times Colonist
- Race to Alaska Starts today by Peninsula Daily News
- These Victorians are racing to Alaska this week by Capital Daily
- And they’re off to the Proving Ground by Peninsula Daily News
- All but one team reach Victoria for phase 2 of R2AK by Peninsula Daily News
- Race to Alaska Team Vegemite Vigilantes by Sail Magazine
- Race to Alaska sails to Victoria as contestants vie for $10K, steak knives by Chek News
- Racers Set, Ready, Go, On Ultimate Watercraft Challenge by VanIsle.News
- Race to Alaska leaves Victoria by Peninsula Daily News
- Mass start for Race to Alaska set for noon; two vessels already out of running by Times Colonist
- 1,200-kilometre Race to Alaska is off and running — with no engines by Times Colonist
- R2AK underway by Ketchikan Daily News
- Race to Alaska team reaches checkpoint by Peninsula Daily News
- Team We Brake for Whales leads R2AK as of Monday afternoon by Ketchikan Daily News
- Four Crews Attempt ‘Water Iditarod’ by Rowing News
- 8-person sailboat may reach Ketchikan today by Peninsula Daily News
- Team ‘We Brake For Whales’ earns its name and $10,000 with first-place Race to Alaska finish by KRBD
- Team We Brake For Whales reaches Ketchikan on Wednesday morning to win R2AK Ketchikan Daily News
- Scott Macdonald Partners with KidSport Greater Victoria in the Race to Alaska by Independent Sports News
- We Brake for Whales wins Race to Alaska by Peninsula Daily News
- Victoria sailor clocks fastest solo time in history of Race to Alaska by Times Colonist
- Team Budgie Smugglers arrives in Ketchikan on Thursday evening to take 2nd in R2AK by Ketchikan Daily News
- Team Budgie Smugglers claims steak knives and second place in 2023 Race to Alaska By KRBD
- Victoria sailor makes history during Race to Alaska by Kelowna Now
- Victoria sailor sets solo record in gruelling Race to Alaska by CTVNews
- Port Townsend boat funeral an epic send-off by King5
- Final racers complete annual Race to Alaska by Peninsula Daily News
- A fitting conclusion to the 2023 R2AK by Ketchikan Daily News
- Race to Alaska wraps up another year with 18 finishing teams By KRBD
- Pair of Vancouver Island residents complete Road to Alaska Race by Vancouver Island Free Daily
Race to Alaska 2022
- R2AK wraps up after three weeks of sailing by Port Townsend Leader
- Winner sails into Ketchikan and un-nails $10,000 prize by Wrangell Sentinel and Ketchikan Daily News
- No smooth sailing: Kootenay Pedalwheelers finish 6th in Race to Alaska by Trail Times
- Team Elsewhere claims Race to Alaska’s second-place prize: steak knives by KBRD
- Team Pure & Wild wins Race to Alaska by Port Townsend Leader
- Crew from Seattle wins 2022 Race to Alaska ‘days in front of anyone else’ by KTOO and KBRD
- The ‘best worst idea.’ Race to Alaska for engineless boats returns after pandemic hiatus by KUOW
- Race To Alaska The Hard Way by Sailing World
- The Race to Alaska: Not for the Faint of Heart by Soundings
- Doug Smith Recounts His Solo Race to Alaska by KTNA
- Three Local Teams Compete in Race To Alaska by Journal of the San Juan Islands
- Burien’s Capt. John Scragg’s ‘Lost But Don’t Care’ team currently in 3rd place in Race to Alaska by B-Town Blog
- R2AK racers’ mental fortitude tested as nautical event continues by Port Townsend Leader
- 4 rescued off Vancouver Island after capsizing during annual Race to Alaska by CBC News
- Stormy seas challenge contenders in Strait by Peninsula Daily News
- Calmer seas for Race to Alaska sailors as ‘proving ground’ concludes ahead of Thursday restart by KBRD
- 4 sailors in Race to Alaska are rescued after boats capsize by Associated Press
- Coast Guard video shows daring rescue of Race to Alaska sailors after boat capsizes by Fox News
- Whipping winds and waves taller than elephants: go inside the Race to Alaska rescues by Coffee or Die Magazine
- In conditions ‘between seasick and dangerous,’ Race to Alaska kicks off with multiple rescues by KTOO and KBRD
- 4 teams in Race to Alaska rescued, forced to pull out after choppy waters, chilly air by KOMO
- Adventurers gear up for Race to Alaska by Peninsula Daily News
- A teen Seattle crew attempts to make history in the ‘Race to Alaska’ by Evening Magazine
- Salt Spring team set to race to Alaska by Gulf Islands Driftwood
- ‘It’s the anti-yacht race’: Kootenay sailing team set to compete in Race to Alaska by Nelson Star
- Race to Alaska a test of skill, endurance by Comox Valley Record
- The Race to Alaska is back, both in film and on the water by Alaska Public Media
- Surviving the Race to Alaska, Hakai Magazine
- No Motor? No Problem! by The Tyee
Race to Alaska 2019
- The Race to Alaska by CBS News
- A friendship formed on the sea: An unexpected summer sailing journey, and story of survival, from Washington State to Alaska by Martlet
- An English Cutter Races to Alaska by Soundings
- Reimagining the Race to Alaska by Sail-World
- Welcoming the Race to Alaska’s class of 2019 by Sail-World
- Race to Alaska: Enough isn’t enough by Scuttlebut Sailing News
- Adventurous couple to tackle high seas in race to Alaska by Komo News
- Bainbridge-based Team Sail Like a Girl sets sail for second Race to Alaska title by Kitsap Sun
- Race to Alaska begins by KRBD
- Alaska or bust! Racers set out on paddleboards, outrigger canoe, sailboats and skiffs by NW News Network
- Sailors take off from Port Townsend to compete in the Race to Alaska by King 5 News
- Winds help and hinder on first leg of Race to Alaska by Peninsula Daily News
- R2AK: Cruel start to cruel race by Scuttlebut Sailing News
- ‘Big winds and big waves’: Victoria rowers prepare for 1,200-kilometre Race to Alaska by Victoria Island News
- Multiple articles by XSSailing
- Race to Alaska competitors pass first checkpoint by Peninsula Daily News
- Some racers reach second waypoint in Race to Alaska by Peninsula Daily News
- Team Angry Beaver wins 5th Race to Alaska by KRBD
- Team Angry Beaver wins 5th annual Race to Alaska by KTOO News
- Seattle team Angry Beaver sails into first place in Race to Alaska by King 5 News
- Team Angry Beaver wins 5th annual Race to Alaska by Alaska Public Media
- R2AK: This year was a stunner by Scuttlebut Sailing News
- Angry Beaver wins R2AK by Port Townsend Leader
Race to Alaska 2018
- Young and Hungry: How 5 Teens Entered the 2018 Race to Alaska by Helly Hansen
- Embracing sailing’s adventurous side on both coasts by Sail-World
- Adversity to Inspiration: Karl Kruger | Paddling the Inside Passage by World of Adventure
- Team Sail Like a Girl reflects on Race to Alaska by King 5 News
- How 8 sleep deprived women won this epic boat race to Alaska by KUOW
- Sail like a girl: How an all-female team made history and won the 750-mile Race to Alaska by the Seattle Times
- Team Sail Like A Girl wins Race to Alaska by Peninsula Daily News
- Race to Alaska winners an all-female team from Bainbridge Island by Kitsap Sun
Race to Alaska 2017
- Race to Alaska by CBS Sunday Morning
- Race to Alaska co-founder talks race’s big-picture concept on KRBD
- Whales, gales and bioluminescence on paddleboarder’s epic Race to Alaska by The Seattle Times
- Marblehead brothers win 750-mile boat race to Alaska by The Boston Globe
- He’s the first to paddle board 750 miles in Race to Alaska by The News Tribune
- SUP Record Set in 750-Mile Race 2 Alaska – SUP Magazine
- Congrats, it’s all over — who’s in for next year?! by Three Sheets Northwest
- Going to Alaska The Hard Way: On A Stand Up Paddleboard by KUOW
- Strandbergs take second in Race to Alaska on goanacortes.com
- Six minutes from cash to cutlery on sail-world.com
- Report #2 from Global, Kelp and Freeburd on 48North.com
- Leg One Report on 48North.com
- 2017 R2AK set to go in Port Townsend by Three Sheets Northwest
- Race to Alaska boating contest attracts no Alaskans by CoastAlaska News
- take two by Bob Davis of Team Bad Kitty for Sailing Anarchy
- straight up nuts by Sailing Anarchy
- Sailing straits to Alaska Pique Newsmagazine
- Fear and Beauty on the Race to Alaska by Team Global’s Katy Stewart in 1889 Magazine
- Scuttlebutt Sailing News gave us great coverage this year.
- Race to Alaska (as told by Team Whitehall Rowing and Sail) by Shaw TV
- Sistership ready to conquer Race to Alaska a second time by the Ventura County Star
- Audacious, Adventurous Or Just Nutty? Racing To Alaska On Stand-up Paddleboards by NPR’s KLCC
- “Sistership goes for a new record” by Ventura Breeze
- “Whale of a Story” video by Off Center Harbor on Sailing Anarchy
- “Enfield Native Reinvents Herself on the Water” by New Hampshire’s Valley News
- “Race Like a Cruiser to Alaska” by Cruising World
- “SB 18” news gets our strangest, best, and most hilarious award. By Juneau Empire. Scroll down a lot to find it, but they are trying to pass a law to make it legal to gamble on R2AK in Alaska
Race to Alaska 2016
- “That’s Amazing Ep 5. | Risk Takers” by CNN Films. It’s team Hot Mess
- “Hardship” by CNN’s Great Big Story
- “Not your average Alaskan Cruise” by Senior Living. Yup…Senior Living.
- Sweet feature article, “A Tricky 750-mile Race in the Pacific Northwest” by Sail Magazine or a PDF Version
- “Washington sailors gearing up for 750-mile ‘Race to Alaska’ by MyNorthwest.com
- “R2AK: Race or Revolution?” by Northwest Yachting
- “To boldly sail” by the Ventura Country Reporter
- “Official lineup for this summer’s Race to Alaska announced” by Three Sheets Northwest
- “Race to Alaska announces race lineup” by PT Leader
- Two articles saying something about us from France. Second article here and also in French. A language we don’t read…but appreciate the L’accent grave and Le tréma.
- The latest presentation by Daniel and Jake reported by The Peninsula Daily News
- Great article about Team Sistership by Ms. Magazine
- Really funny article predicting winners by The Trimaran Journal
- Team Un-Cruise is holding a contest for folks to go racing! by Three Sheets Northwest.
- R2AK officials planning a second epic race by Alaska Public Media
- “The Greatest Boat Race Ever (Dreamed up Over Beers)” in Outside Magazine
- “Beat up & Blown Away in the Race to Alaska” in Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation
- “To Alaska, on a very little boat” in Sailing Magazine
- Scuttlebutt’s ongoing list of articles. Scuttlebutt
- Video: “Race to Alaska: The Worlds Toughest Boat Race?” on Discovery News
- “R2AK: Go Small, Go Simple” in Cruising World
- “Race to Alaska challenges Larry Ellison and Team Oracle USA + Video” in Sail World
- “2nd Race to Alaska 2016 Announced” in SitNews: Stores in the News
Race to Alaska 2015
- “Seattle Team Wins a Sailing Challenge to Alaska” in New York Times
- Tim Claxton wrote a great article on R2AK boats, “Adventure Boats Race to Alaska” in Boats.com
- Here’s a video tied to the article by Tim Claxton as well, Innovative Boats on the 2105 Race to Alaska
- “A Race to Alaska: No Motors, but No Limits on Imagination” in New York Times
- “Race to Alaska lures hardy souls” in Port Townsend Leader
- “Inaugural Race To Alaska Likened To ‘Iditarod With Chance Of Drowning'” on NWNews | By Tom Banse
- “Race to Alaska: The Ultimate Adventure?” in Boats.com blog
- “The inaugural Race to Alaska (R2AK) is on the horizon” in Three Sheets Northwest
- Interview | Jake Beattie, Update on Inaugral R2AK on Hooked on Wooden Boats
- “Racing to Alaska for a pile of cash” in Soundings
- “Victoria rower to compete in endurance race from Washington to Alaska”in Global News BC (video)
- “Race to Alaska by sail, paddle: daring dash for a $10,000 prize” in The Seattle Times
- “The Race to Alaska” in Alaska Magazine
- “Engineless Boat Race to Finish in Ketchikan” on KRBD
- “NW Maritime Center Sponsoring an Adventure” in the PT Leader
- “Competitors Step Forward…” in the Peninsula Daily News
- “Race to Alaska Offers $10,000 Prize” in Victoria News
- “Preview: Sail, Row, Paddle Race to Alaska – 1st Prize $10k, 2nd Steak Knives” on Off Center Harbor.com
- Interview with Jake Beattie – Hooked on Wooden Boats podcast