A most delightful paddle
On Mother’s Day, we set out to get a solid training paddle in. With just a few weeks until SEVENTY48, we wanted to increase…
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Racing Puget Sound
WA360 2025: Day Thirteen
Day 13 Goal Map: The winds that kept us grounded most of this week persisted into the morning. We got our kayaks out of…
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Day 12 Goal Map: The forecast for today still had more winds than we would like. However, we were just a few miles from…
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Day 10 Goal Map: We had a beautiful paddle from La Conner to Larrabee State Park. We’re setting up camp for a couple of…
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Day 9 Goal Map: Waypoint number two: ✅ Which means… we achieved our sixth goal! We went back to the dreaded 4am alarm to…
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Day 7 Goal Map: Goals: 1. Stay alive. ✅ 2. Stay married. ✅ 3. More mileage than we did in 2021. ✅ 4. More…
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Day 6 Goal Map: I was just thinking this morning how good we’re getting at doing this race thing. Not that we’re racing the…
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Day 5 Goal Map: If you compare the race we ran in 2021 to the race we’ve run so far in 2025, you would…
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Day 4 Goal Map: When we said that we were going to get an early start today? We didn’t take into account how much…
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Day 3 Goal Map: Did we make up for our zero day by paddling for 12 hours with just one little break? Well, not…
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Day 2 Goal Map: One thing about camping at a county park where overnight camping is not strictly allowed… You don’t really have any…
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Day 1 Goal Map: We did our final prep and launched just before the race start, resting in the shade of the dock for…
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The Math of WA360
A favorite quote in our household: The sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is…
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WA360: Lessons Learned
We’ve literally been waiting to race in WA360 again since the moment we called to say we were dropping out of the first…
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SEVENTY48 2025 Part II: Lisabuela to Blake Island
Lisabuela is always our first break in SEVENTY48. We’ve camped there some years, but with our plan to take advantage of calm seas, it…
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SEVENTY48 2025 Part I: Start Line to Lisabuela
Over the seven years that we’ve participated in SEVENTY48, we’ve learned that the weather plays a major factor in how we do. Last year, we…
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SEVENTY48 2024
What if… We have always said that we’re not #InItToWinIt when it comes to SEVENTY48. We’ve always -every year – included camping along the way…
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After SEVENTY48 2023
We finished out SEVENTY48 2023 with our normal traditions. We went to the Ruckus and enjoyed a beer or two with fellow racers.
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SEVENTY48 2023: Day Two
Before dawn, we woke up and broke camp. We launched in record time. Our abbreviated gear list worked as we’d planned and we felt good…
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SEVENTY48 2023: Day One
The Plan: Get ourselves launched, across the start line, past the first waypoint at Owen Beach, and about halfway up Colvos before camping for the…
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SEVENTY48 2022: Risk Assessment
As we paused at Foul Weather Bluff, we floated while checking the weather forecast and assessing our situation. The forecast was not friendly. The winds…
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Winds of Change
We’ve been picking up the mileage on our training paddles, since SEVENTY48 is quickly approaching. We had plans that kept us from the water…
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