NO ENGINES.
NO SUPPORT.
750 MILES OF COLD WATER RACING TO ALASKA.
ABOUT R2AK
No Engines. no support.
All the way to Alaska.
A test of physical endurance, backwater know-how, and bulldog tenacity to navigate the 750 cold water miles from Port Townsend, Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska.
“It’s the dumbest thing you could do. It’s like bicycling through the Louvre.”
– Past Racer
2026 Race results
northbound nutters win $10K
2026: Largest R2AK fleet ever.
See the results and read the Daily Updates from this year’s race.
THE LOGBOOK
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- Day Done: The Whole Unreasonable ThingFor three weeks, you’ve opened these emails to discover what went sideways while you were pretending to work. The answers usually involved salt-crusted electronics, dismastings, bad decisions near nameless islands, or a couple of human beings moving at
- Nothing Left in the TankHumans are generally advised to leave something in the tank. Save some money, get some sleep, keep a little in reserve for the inevitable. It’s solid advice—right up until tomorrow stops happening. Bruce Willis in Armageddon understood the
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GUTS. GRIT. DETERMINATION.
These are the teams of 2026.
Read the bios and stats of the teams who tackled R2AK in 2026.
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