The Long Way Starts Now (Tomorrow)
The first of the boats racing in WA360 have rolled into town. Now is the moment when things click into focus. The prep’s been done. The gear’s packed. The start line is just hours away, and over 200 racers ...
Ship's Log: WA360
WA360: The Race That Accidentally Made Everything Make Sense
By Jesse Wiegel, Race Boss
Race to Alaska and SEVENTY48 are doing just fine, thanks. They’ve got international hype, a cottage industry of waterproof documentary crews, and a crowd of dedicated die-hards consistently finding ways to do it harder, ...
There Goes the Neighborhood: WA360 “Welcomes” R2AK Veterans For a Lap Around Washington
R2AK Tracker Nation!
It’s been a decade since R2AK’s first hold-my-beer and cross-your-fingers hoo-rah, where the rapscallion fringe launched into Alaska, history, and glorified oblivion. It was epic, again, and again, and again, and again, ...
WA360 Race Recap: Finding Community and Connection in Our Home Waters
What started as a substitute race for the second year of cancelling the Race to Alaska, became an adventure that blew away expectations and had racers and fans alike enamored in new ways of Washington’s home waters, the tenacity ...
WA360: A new adventure starting June 7, 2021
WA360. A celebration. An adventure. 360 miles of engineless, unsupported boat racing, circling Puget Sound. We stole the framework of Race to Alaska, because the Canadians still won’t let us in, and twisted it into one of the toughest boat ...