Video: WA360 Race Boss Joins Boat Geeks Podcast
Filmed live at the 2024 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, WA360 Race Boss Jesse Wiegel stopped by the Boat Geeks tent to announce the rebooted race for 2025. Recorded on location in the Fisheries Supply "Live at the Wooden…
The WA360 Race is Back!
After one year of glory in 2021, the WA360 adventure race is once again getting it's time to shine, as it will now rotate years with the Race to Alaska. The wait is over. Hints have been dropping, teasing the possibilities,…
Big R2AK News and the Return of the WA360 Race
The bosses at R2AK high command recently announced the return of WA360 next summer and that the Race to Alaska will now run on alternate years. WA360 (pronounced Washington Three Sixty) is 360 miles of engineless,…
Grateful for 360 Miles of (Type-Two) Fun
Team Gratitude was one of 56 teams who challenged themselves in the inaugural WA360 Race from Port Townsend to Olympia to Point Roberts and back to Port Townsend. After much deliberation and possibly a dark-and-stormy or…
WA360 Day Four Feed
We're going to see WA360 finishes today in Port Townsend! Check back for periodic updates from our sailing buds on the race course. What fun this has been and still is! If you're just tuning in, be sure to explore our feeds…
WA360 Day Three Feed
As we move into day three of WA360, we've seen the distance between the two human-powered leaders and nearest sailboats close; but the sailors still trail. The race's biggest decision — Swinomish Channel or Deception Pass —…
WA360 Day Two Feed
WA360 racers are 24+ hours into a run that has had a lot less wind than any sailors would have hoped. The human powered boats are crushing it, and the sailors are getting a serious workout on their various propulsion…
WA360 Day One Feed
Stay tuned — we'll be posting updates from some of the amazing folks that began the new WA360 Race today! There are a number of great ways to follow the WA360, which began at 6:00 a.m. today in Port Townsend, and we hope…
NW Maritime Center Races — Seventy48 and WA360 — Begin in the Next Few Days!
The human-powered Seventy48 race begins tonight in Tacoma, and the new and epic WA360 race begins in the wee hours this Monday in Port Townsend! Here's how to find out more and follow along.
Adventure in Place: Previewing the WA360 Race
This article originally appeared in the May 2021 issue of 48° North. I’ll admit it, when I heard that Race to Alaska (R2AK) was being canceled for the second year in a row, I was a bit bummed. While I understood and…
