HeyJaredRace to Alaska
The Daily Fix is a daily podcast reporting the amazing stories on the Race to Alaska: an annual 750 mile boat race from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, Alaska - no motors, no support, all the way to Alaska.
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- Jul 10, 2026
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- Jul 3, 2026
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Day Done: The Whole Unreasonable Thing (opens the original)
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For three weeks, you’ve opened these emails to discover what went sideways while you were pretending to work. The answers usually involved salt-crusted electronics, dismastings, bad decisions near nameless islands, or a couple of human beings moving at 1.6 knots for the amount of time it takes to grow a turnip from seed. You watched The post Day Done: The Whole Unreasonable Thing appeared first on RACE TO ALASKA .
Nothing Left in the Tank (opens the original)
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Humans are generally advised to leave something in the tank. Save some money, get some sleep, keep a little in reserve for the inevitable. It’s solid advice—right up until tomorrow stops happening. Bruce Willis in Armageddon understood the loophole: if there’s no tomorrow, you can really open up the throttle on today. For three weeks, The post Nothing Left in the Tank appeared first on RACE TO ALASKA .
The Long Way To Look Impressive (opens the original)
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The docks in Ketchikan are quiet. The finish line bell is hanging moribund upon its post. The remaining beers are sitting around, warm by now because nobody has been down to check on the ice. Meanwhile, several thousand tracker enthusiasts are using industrial-strength Visine in a spray bottle to continue staring intensely at the four The post The Long Way To Look Impressive appeared first on RACE TO ALASKA .
Tracker Dots Are People Too (opens the original)
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For three weeks, Team Let’s Wing It and Team Rainy have existed for the civilized world as two boat-shaped clusters of pixels on a screen. Every morning emerging from another knot of islands, every evening dissolving back into some anonymous cove, and almost always within a pixel of each other. If you spent your days The post Tracker Dots Are People Too appeared first on RACE TO ALASKA .
TINY PLASTIC PRISONS (opens the original)
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Team Old Farts arrived in Ketchikan on Friday in the Ketchikan way: under a heavy, unrelenting gray faucet, thoroughly soaked, with a small crowd of family and friends watching them skid into Thomas Basin. They had big smiles, an un-broken boat, and dragging near the rudder, a commercial crab pot buoy they’d picked up somewhere The post TINY PLASTIC PRISONS appeared first on RACE TO ALASKA .
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