Yes, there is a spot map. And a daily update from the organizers. Here is the tracker. http://tracker.r2ak.com And a link to a daily update. I expect you will find the rest. http://r2ak.com/daily-updates-2/june-8 -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR -------- Original message -------- From Jackie Myers <jackie_at_muddypuppies.com> Date: 06/09/2015 11:58 AM (GMT-08:00) To Paddlewise Paddlewise <paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net> Subject Re: [Paddlewise] Paddlewise Now see…. I didn’t know anything about it! :) Thanks for posting this, Dave! Is there a link to a map (like a SPOT map where racing teams are identified)? Jackie > On Jun 9, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com> wrote: > > Yup. Another graybeard heard from. > > Anybody else following the R2AK sailboat/paddlecraft race now occurring up the Inside Passage? Began Friday in Port Townsend, WA, first leg to Victoria, BC. My fave, Team Soggy Beavers, is a six place outrigger canoe, outclassed by the multihull sailboats, but the lead paddlecraft. Race ends in Ketchikan. Front end of the mob is near Seymour Narrows. Field winnowed from ca. 50 down to about 30, with most of the attrition crossing the Strait of Juan de Fuca. > > Mike Higgins, a true one place kayak, is Team Mikes Kayak, still in the game, somewhere near Nanaimo. > > > -- > Dave Kruger > Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
And if you really want almost a blow by blow account, dial up this thread in the WoodenBoat Forum. Out 29 pages and counting. http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?181193-Race-to-Alaska-2015!/page27 This link will let you track what happened today. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR*************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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