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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