SEVENTY48: WE'RE IN

We applied to Seventy48. Within a few minutes were approved to race.  The race is a human powered, non-supported race from Tacoma to Port Townsend.  The race website, with all the details, is here.


We have a plan heavily influenced by my experience at last year’s finish line.  I didn’t see the first ones to finish, but watched from around 8am Saturday morning on.  What I saw that morning were heroic efforts, pained faces, and variants of “I’ll never do that again” (many of whom, according to family and friends, said exactly the same thing after they finished last year).  As they day wore on, the smiles increased.  Laughter.  Clearly the later arrivals had more fun than the earlier arrivals.

We won’t finish first. We won’t finish in the top half of finishers.   We’ll finish Sunday mid morning, weather willing.  Just in time for the ruckus.  But if smiles are on our faces, it’ll be a personal victory.

Our boat is a Pygmy Osprey Double.  Wooden, stitch and glue, built by a craftsman in Portland who really knew what he was doing.  It was, and is, a well loved boat.

Training will commence shortly.