Here near the bottom of the 2024 R2AK teams barrel, we found three more gems and chatted them up.Av Race to Alaska

And the hits keep on coming. Listen up this week as we quiz three more teams on prop choice, sleeping in coffins, and things that could derail the whole endeavor.Av Race to Alaska

Boat lovers/addicts, a solo sailor with a lot of wet miles ahead of her, and a team manifested from an online sailing/dating scheme - all inside this week's tidy podcast package.Av Race to Alaska

Settle in for the long haul folks, as the R2AK podcast heads into a series of three-interview episodes. In this week's chats, meet a trio of teams that each will require a blister-care technician.Av Race to Alaska

There are perhaps no two different boats than those chosen for glory by this weeks' teams. Bask in the variety of R2AK in this week's episode.Av Race to Alaska

This week, fill up your sound holes with the tale of Team Rock the Boat, and take note as the Race Boss gives some tips on how to follow the upcoming race.Av Race to Alaska

This week, we'll introduce you to a trio of sailors, two of whom will meet face to face for the first time just days before the race start and an R2AK volunteer superstar making a solo bid aboard his liveaboard Contessa 26.Av Race to Alaska

Two more teams for the your consumption this week - from Seattle it's Team Natural Disaster, here being quizzed by the one and only Nikki Henderson, and from San Francisco we have Team Hullabaloo, lightly grilled by Race Boss Jesse.Av Race to Alaska

This week's episode starts with an extremely awesome update about R2AK's future from the Race Boss, and is followed by interviews with two extremely awesome teams. Go to www.nwmaritime.org/wa360-raceAv Race to Alaska

Two teams, both alike in reckless grace,On vast seas where we our race cast,Guardian Sailing and Wicked Wily Wildcat, fast,Through trials where bold choices embrace.If you want actual information and not nonsense words, hit play.Av Race to Alaska

In this week's episode, revel in the clever team names and take a close look at two approaches to R2AK - father/daughter/guy-named-rob and roommate/roommate/roommate/friend/semi-stranger.Av Race to Alaska

How are these two teams even in the same race? Oh right - it's R2AK. Get to know the soloist of Team SKOFTIG as they chat with Jake and the quad-ists Team Juvenile Delinquents who caught up with the Race Boss.Av Race to Alaska

It's a big year for R2AK solo adventure artists. Meet Dan of Team Hornblower and Bruce of Team Bowen Arrow, and try to understand just what it is they're running away from.Av Race to Alaska

R2AK creator and one-man hive-mind Jake Beattie joins the Race Boss this week. Meet Greg of Team Kuaka, the first OC-1 to attempt the full race, and Kayleen and Sylvia - who seem to make more reasonable choices - racing as Team Orca.Av Race to Alaska

The week of dos jefes. Listen in as Race Boss Emeritus Daniel Evans chats with Hobie-hopefuls Tips Up and Race Boss Actual meets Sail Like a Mother.Av Race to Alaska

R2AK is back for 2024, and with it a new batch of hopefuls. Get to know Team Narrows Minded as they chat with R2AK 2-time winner Nikki Henderson, followed up by a chat between 0-time R2AK winner Race Boss Jesse and Team Spirit of Nevetz.Av Race to Alaska

This is the final episode chronicling the 2019 Race to Alaska. In the same way you use the leftover turkey carcass after Thanksgiving to make soup, we’re making R2AK stew out of our favorite leftover bits from the 2019 experience. If you’ve listened to the previous 13 episodes, you have tasted all of the dishes: the eccentric personalities, interes…

The dual nature of the Race to Alaska is that it is both a race and a grand epic journey - a hero’s saga, and a pilgrimage of sorts for some. Every hero’s journey involves the overcoming of hardship and adventure along the way. In this two part episode we highlight the struggles that teams overcame in the 2019 race on the way to Ketchikan, and the …

The dual nature of the Race to Alaska is that it is both a race and a grand epic journey - a hero’s saga, and a pilgrimage of sorts for some. Every hero’s journey involves the overcoming of hardship and adventure along the way. In this two part episode we highlight the struggles that teams overcame in the 2019 race on the way to Ketchikan, and the …

If you want to spectate the R2AK, Port Townsend or Victoria are likely the easiest places to do it for most. But Ketchikan - the finish line - is the best. Why? It’s where the story ends and where racers achieve their glory, get that first warm meal in weeks, lets out their anxiety and can finally get away from that annoying teammate that chews wit…

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the R2AK is a race between a couple of fast boats shooting for the $10,000 prize, a few dirtbags who stole their dad’s boat Ferris Bueller-style, and a weirdo who wants to test drive his homemade submarine. You might not be far off, but there are also some amazing people who sign up in order to use the race as a …

All anyone talks about around here are their boats, so we’ll cave and talk about them too. This episode highlights one of the most interesting parts of the Race to Alaska - the ridiculous variety of watercraft that people bring to this race - from custom racers to Hawaiian outrigger canoes, to 19th century wooden boats.R2AK Teams featured in this e…

A rare peek behind the curtains to share a bit of the experience of what it’s like for the people involved with this event who are not racing. You’ll hear from everyone from the Race Boss, to the media team, to interns, volunteers, and even an R2AK superfan, for a full introduction to this adventure. R2AK personalities featured in this episode: Dan…

At this point we’ve learned the winners of the actual race, but even more importantly who will win the “keeping it cool” award and which team is “most in need of a stiff drink?” In this episode we highlight the teams vying for the real awards--the sidebets including the highly coveted dirtbag award. R2AK Teams featured in this episode: Razzle Dazzl…

The winning teams are in, second place has their steak knives, and the parties have started in Ketchikan for some of us. Much of the field is still out there suffering, but this is a freaking long race, and we’ve been out here for almost two weeks. It’s time for a story about how this race has unfolded to this point.R2AK Teams featured in this epis…

In this episode we speak with this year’s racers and race veterans about the unique challenges posed by the Race to Alaska - from figuring out how to keep warm and dry on a tiny boat in bad weather, to dealing with the whims of weather and tide, to putting up with the crap that race directors pull to make racer lives harder.R2AK Teams and personali…

This is the second episode of The R2AK Daily Fix 2019! Hear from some more teams who have braved the fierce winds to make it to Victoria and encountered some mishaps along the way and about the incredible race camaraderie and community both between teammates and other teams. R2AK Teams featured in this episode: Perseverance, Funky Dory, Angry Beave…

Why? The R2AK Daily Fix by Boldly Went 6/10/2019This is the third episode of The R2AK Daily Fix 2019! This episode offers some insight into why on earth these racers are here. What drove them to ditch everyday comforts for the lure of choppy cold waters? You’ll hear interviews with racers about the causes they are championing and the personal journ…

This is the first episode of The R2AK Daily Fix 2019! The R2AK Daily Fix is a podcast following the 750 mile Race to Alaska created and produced by Boldly Went Media. Hear interviews with racers, behind the scenes news, and the types of personal experiences that you won’t be able to access any other way. Grab a bucket, because we’re getting you so …

We are Achaians coming from Troy, beaten off our true course by winds from every direction across the great gulf of the open sea, making for home, by the wrong way, on the wrong courses. So we have come. - OdysseusTeam Ravenous has achieved the dubious record of most miles to Ketchikan. Some will say it is a 750 mile race, but not them. For them th…

Race Boss was able to grab a quick chair with teams Oaracle and Trak Kayaks. Two of our human powered back of the pack teams. Turns out, they like it back there. And here’s why.Av Race to Alaska

One team left. Team Ravenous, the 20-foot Hobie cat, is trying to get across Dixon Entrance—and they have been trying all night. They are the only team in the four years of racing to sail to Haida Gwaii. And they did it in a 20-foot cabinless beach cat. We can’t answer why they chose that route, because that is usually considered a very bad idea wh…

It's a talk with Josh Collins of Team Torrent, a man trying to finish the Race to Alaska on a stand up paddle board. He doesn't finish the race, but it is not from lack of trying. It's a modern day epic tale, one paddle stroke at a time.Av Race to Alaska

Team Lost Boys came in yesterday and we are looking forward with talking to them next. This is the Racer Round up part duex. Same eleven team. And they are talking about propulsion choices and those really high and low points that come with racing to Alaska. Enjoy.Av Race to Alaska

Episode 5 of 2018. It's an interview with Team Lost Boys. A father daughter team who dragged a willing third along. And...don't eat the vegetable bowl.Av Race to Alaska

Episode 4. Racer Round up Part 1. Waiting for FusionIt’s a roundtable featuring 11 teams that span all four years of the race. They pull up a chair and search for answers to questions often unanswerable, or at least arguable. It’s a geek session, but it’s from the horse’s mouth. Teams include: North2Alaska - 2017, Ptarmigan - 2018, Ketchikan - 2016…

It's the third cast of the 2018 race and Team Global Captain is already thinking about doing it again (don't believe her believe us). And micro legend Russell Brown, master of all things multihull talks with Daniel. Russel wins every time, because being first isn't winning to him. And who said bloodlust?…

Interview with Race to Alaska's Team Blue Flash. The youngest team to ever complete the 750 mile engineless boat race between Port Townsend, Washington and Ketchikan, Alaska.Av Race to Alaska

2017 Race to Alaska daily update. Talking with racer Tim Penhallow and Ryan "The Wedge" Wedgewick. Well, his mom.Av Race to Alaska

2017 Race to Alaska daily update. Chatting with Teams Freya and Sistership. And Team Sistership recounts some epic moments is their racing moments.Av Race to Alaska

2017 Race to Alaska daily update. It's a hang out at the Ketchikan Yacht Club and a chat with Team Adventourists. They're from Australia!Av Race to Alaska

2017 Race to Alaska daily update. 6 teams in so let's look at that finish line.Av Race to Alaska

2017 Race to Alaska daily update. An interview with the youngest Captain to ever race and the crew of Team North to Alaska.Av Race to Alaska

2017 Race to Alaska daily update. Today a look behind the scenes of the media team and a interview with Team KELP.Av Race to Alaska

2017 Race to Alaska daily update. Jake and I review the field of racers in the wilds of the remote coastline.Av Race to Alaska

2017 Race to Alaska Daily Fix. First boats in, so we have an awards ceremony.Av Race to Alaska

2017 Daily Race Update. In this one we call racers mamas to see what they think about all this racer business.Av Race to Alaska

2017 Daily Update of Race to Alaska. This one talks with teams: Grace B, Bad Kitty, KELP, Rush Aweigh and Rod PriceAv Race to Alaska

2017 Race to Alaska discussing the Seymour NarrowsAv Race to Alaska

2017 Daily update of the Race to Alaska number 2!Av Race to Alaska