Race to Alaska

Why? The R2AK Daily Fix by Boldly Went 6/10/2019 This 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 journeys they are embarking upon. R2AK Teams featured...

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 close to the experience that you might feel a litt...

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. - Odysseus Team 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 the road is much longer and finds it's way to the d...

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.

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 when you're trying to race to Alaska. It’s not even...

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.

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.

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.

Episode 4. Racer Round up Part 1. Waiting for Fusion It’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, Can’t Anchor Us - 2015/16, Sail like a Girl - 2...

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2017 Race to Alaska discussing the Seymour Narrows

2017 Daily update of the Race to Alaska number 2!