Racer Alley

Take a boat—stand-up paddleboard, cruiser, racer, home-build, kayak, surf ski, or what have you—make sure it doesn’t have an engine, and enter three of the toughest water challenges you can find in the Salish Sea and Alaska, adventure races: Race to Alaska, SEVENTY48, and WA360.

RACE TO ALASKA is one of the most ridiculous endurance challenges in the world. Described as “the Iditarod on a boat with a chance of drowning or being eaten by a grizzly bear,” it’s a 750-mile boat race through the dangerous and spectacular wilderness of the Inside Passage to Alaska—one of the most complex and beautiful race courses on the planet.

SEVENTY48—a.k.a. 70 miles in 48 hours and human-powered only—is a personal power lift through the heart of Puget Sound. Is it hard? Try typing for 48 hours, or whistling, or making paper airplanes. Everything is hard to do for 48 hours and most teams arrive just hoping to finish!

See presentation schedule on pages 18 – 22.

Friday, Sept 9 | 6 PM @ Cruising/ Technical Stage Tickets $30

Get tickets at woodenboat.org/special-events

All the boats at Festival have wood hulls (the buoyant main body of the boat). Some are traditionally built plank-on-frame, some are modern plywood construction, and a few are built using ancient technology or the newest experimental composites. HUMAN-POWERED VESSELS

Primarily built for rowing propulsion –longboats with oars, kayaks with paddles, and rowing shells with sculls.

POWER VESSELS

Propelled by motor with gasoline, diesel or electric engines.

SAILING VESSELS:

Sloop – Single-masted sailing boat with single headsail. [Dutch sloep, from Middle Dutch slūpen, to glide.] Ketch – A two-masted sailing boat with the steering rudder and station behind both masts. [Middle English cache, from cachen, to catch.]

Schooner – A sailing boat with multiple sails and two to seven masts. Schooners can lie closer to the wind than square-rigged sailing ships, use a smaller crew, and are very fast. Yawl – A twomasted sailing boat with the taller mast forward and aft mast (called the mizzen mast) behind the steering rudder and station. [Dutch jol, possibly from Low German jolle.]

Multihull – Two or more hulls, also called catamaran, trimaran, and outrigger.

this 36-foot Herreshoff ketch is already in Florida and one overnight sail from Key West.

Learn more at www.svEquinox.info