Pssst … I have a gift idea for the adventurer in your life

Posted on December 9, 2022 by admin

Wendy Hinman’s hit book, Tightwads on the Loose: A Seven-Year Pacific Odyssey, details her seven year adventure afloat. You can find it in paperback, eBook and audio, too!

Her second book, Sea Trials tells the gripping story of her husband Garth’s family in a tireless quest to sail around the world despite daunting challenges including a shipwreck, rebuilding a boat on a remote island, and threats from wild weather, pirates, gun boats, mines and thieves, a broken rig, scurvy and starvation. It is a story of grit and determination. Sea Trials has been named a Kirkus Best Book of 2017. And a Foreword Reviews Best Book! And a Readers Favorite! Available in paperback, eBook and audiobook. You can order it here.

As the Seattle Review of Books once said, “Both books are a blast to read.”

Here’s the full quote: “Hinman’s award-winning books, Tightwads on the Loose and Sea Trials, document both adventures with honesty, humor, and spirit. Both books are a blast to read.” –Seattle Review of Books

Buy from your local bookstore and they can wrap for you!

Now also available in audiobook format from most major audiobook sellers.

Or you can order here:
https://www.amazon.com/Wendy-Hinman/e/B007Z6TRRO

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Wishing a joyous holiday season

Posted on December 9, 2022 by admin

Wishing you a season full of good company, good cheer, and good books.

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Wendy Hinman Q & A with Author Joy Held

Posted on December 9, 2022 by admin

Books By My Friends
Featuring Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire by WENDY HINMAN

Joy E. Held, Nov 29, 2022 publication

Welcome to Books By My Friends, Wendy! Happy to have an adventurer on board today! *grin*

JH: What’s the blurb for your book Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire? (That title is an attention grabber!)

WH: Sea Trials is the story of a family’s epic journey around the globe. Together they overcome daunting challenges–from shipwreck and wild weather to threats from pirates, gunboats, mines and thieves, a broken rig, scurvy and starvation. Glimpses of the fascinating cultures they encounter along the way enhances the suspense and keeps readers of all ages hooked until the “nail-biting” end. * A multi-award winner with rave reviews, including a Kirkus starred review.

JH: What inspired you to write Sea Trials?

WH: Over the years I’d been hearing snippets of the epic voyage my husband had taken with his family sailing around the world and their shipwreck when he was fourteen. Family dinners had been filled with “you remember the time when …

• gunboats forced us to sail across mines in the Red Sea?

• when our pilot Abdul got lost in the Suez Canal?

• the boat starting sinking in Israel?

• mom tried to poison us?

• we ran out of food and nearly starved?”

Such tantalizing anecdotes intrigued me. Then I got possession of the famous letters the family mailed home during the voyage. Hundreds of them. In them was more detail than any writer could hope for. Too much, sometimes. But by combing through them I fleshed out the outline of the story that I’d developed in my mind of the voyage. I asked a lot of questions of family members and took copious notes. What I uncovered was an even more dramatic story than I already knew, and I could hardly believe anyone had truly lived through it. Especially people I knew so intimately. Their story featured pirates, gunboats, mines, thieves, starvation and scurvy in addition to a shipwreck. I also couldn’t believe there wasn’t already a book written about it, since their shipwreck and arrival home hit the papers around the globe. To flesh out their story, I consulted guide books and sailing directions, maps, weather data, and the ship’s log to ferret out the finer details. I read the newspaper articles, listened to the interviews with the family. I started writing and double-checking details with the people who had lived through it. Once I began writing I found my draft came really fast, probably because I’d been thinking about this story for so long beforehand and had so much material. With a rough draft completed, I had them read every word to check for inaccuracies or things that didn’t seem true to their experience. It was a great family bonding experience to write Sea Trials about their journey.

Read more about Wendy’s inpiration and writing process here as well as discover other great books and authors:
https://joyeheld.substack.com/p/books-by-my-friends-9ff

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Deborah Kalb Q & A with Author Wendy Hinman

Posted on October 23, 2022 by admin

Wendy Hinman is the author of the books Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire and Tightwads on the Loose: A Seven Year Pacific Odyssey. Sea Trials focuses on her husband’s family’s experiences, while Tightwads on the Loose looks at her and her husband’s travels. Both are now available as audiobooks. Hinman reviews books for Foreword Reviews.

Q: How did writing Sea Trials, about your husband’s family, differ from writing Tightwads on the Loose, a memoir about the adventures you and your husband had in the Pacific?

A: I wrote Tightwads on the Loose first. In some ways it was easier because I was there and didn’t have to do any research.

Initially I started writing scenes that I most wanted to capture—events that stood out during our seven-year journey around the Pacific. I wrote each scene as a stand-alone and in no particular order.

Once I had crafted scenes that highlighted the journey I shaped them as a whole into a cohesive story arc that linked everything together. I think my lighthearted style built on scenes let the reader feel as though they were experiencing the journey for themselves.

One key thing I realized when I began writing was that for any series of events, it’s possible to shape them into various different stories. With an extended adventure such as this, I had to make a lot of decisions about what to include and what not to include.

There were many places where we had encounters with ships or storms that threatened to turn our floating home into kindling and thrilling experiences with nature or foreign cultures.

I kept asking myself “What is the story am I trying to tell?” From there I made choices that supported my themes and the pace of the story. I also figured if it was fun to write, then it’d be fun to read.

The writing of Sea Trials went faster, probably because I had more experience by then and it had a dramatic, clearly defined story arc. While there’s humor in the story, I didn’t feel as free to joke about someone else’s hardships as I was about my own as I did in Tightwads on the Loose so the voice is more serious.

Q: Of the various experiences you’ve written about, do any of them particularly stand out in your mind?

A: The many intimate moments in nature—frolicking in waterfalls, playing in the rain, enjoying a sunset—remind me that nature puts on an amazing show every day if only we stop to appreciate it.

We visited islands so tiny that maps rarely featured them and met native people who live much as they did thousands of years ago—people content with a simple way of life surrounded by family and community. That left a strong impression on me and changed the way I approach life.

I am glad that I wrote Tightwads on the Loose first because the events in Sea Trials were so dramatic, I might otherwise have considered my own sailing adventure less worthy of sharing.

In hindsight, what I realize both books show is how important one’s attitude is in defining one’s experiences and the outcome. That’s a life lesson that sticks with me.

A couple of events come to mind that demonstrate that attitude is key are an incident when I spilled spaghetti marinara all over the interior of our boat; and then a miserable, wet passage from New Zealand to Fiji during a storm. In both circumstances, when I stopped to consider the absurdity of the situations and saw the humor in them, it made everything more bearable and enjoyable.

Likewise, I think it was humor and optimism among the family members that pulled them through challenging times when they were shipwrecked, sinking, or suffering from scurvy. I don’t think any of us realize what we are capable of achieving until we push ourselves and that’s what makes life exciting.

Whenever I feel dissatisfied with life, I find I need to ask myself whether I just need to readjust my attitude to embrace a challenge. I think of a friend and fellow writer who jokes “Plot twist!” whenever life gets hard.

Q: What do your family members think of the books?

A: My family is pretty excited about my books. In Tightwads on the Loose I poked a little fun at my dad, who taught me a lot about how to tell a good story, and I’m touched that he was so proud to be featured in it. I lost him recently and I take great comfort in that.

I always thought Sea Trials was too good a story not to share and am honored the family trusted me with it and are so pleased with the outcome. My mother-in-law is so delighted to have her story out in the world, she has personally been responsible for an impressive number of book sales herself.

What I’ve loved best was being able to have them join me for a few book events and seeing how cathartic it’s been for them to experience the interest and enthusiasm for these stories.

Q: What are you working on now?

A: I’m currently at work on historical fiction inspired by my relations. I have some wonderful scrapbooks and photo albums that have sparked some story ideas.

I’m a big fan of history and think seeing history through the eyes of people who lived it helps us understand the past and how it’s shaped the present. It also helps us see how people have faced what appeared to be insurmountable obstacles and found a way to overcome them.

There is so much we can learn from the experiences of the past that can help us cope with difficulties we face now. I love the challenge of working in a new genre and figuring out how to tell a new story from my imagination.

Q: Anything else we should know?

A: I’m delighted at the warm reception these books have gotten and I’ve been approached about making them into a movie or mini-series. Who knows what will come of that interest; regardless, I feel so lucky to get to create stories and share them with the world. It’s rewarding to meet readers who’ve found these stories to be riveting, amusing or inspiring.

As a lover of books, I know how important books have been in shaping the person I’ve become and helping me cope with the trials and tribulations of life.

Thanks for the interview!

To read more visit:

https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2022/09/q-with-wendy-hinman.html

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5 stars for Sea Trials by Wendy Hinman, an amazing read.

Posted on October 22, 2022 by admin

Lady Reading 365 says:

“Wow this was an amazing read. I just couldn’t get enough of this book. I was so engrossed from the very start.”

Synopsis:

A shipwreck might end a dream of circumnavigating the globe. Not for the Wilcox family. To triumph, they must rebuild their boat on a remote Pacific island. Damage sustained on the reef and a lack of resources haunt them the rest of the way around the world as they face daunting obstacles, including wild weather, pirates, gun boats, mines and thieves, plus pesky bureaucrats and cockroaches as stubborn as the family. Without a working engine and no way to communicate with the outside world, they struggle to reach home before their broken rig comes crashing down and they run out of food in a trial that tests them to their limits.

My Review:

Wow this was an amazing read. I just couldn’t get enough of this book. I was so engrossed from the very start. I listened to the audiobook and liked the narrators voice. Although I was surprised there was a male narrator when the author was female. The didn’t take anything away from the book though.

The author has obviously lived a very exciting, thrilling and rather shocking life. The author and family spent a few years travelling the world. So there was plenty of cultures to enjoy learning about. I loved how the voyage took place in the 70′s, so it was easy to see the changes from today’s world. Its unbelievable what the family had to go through on the journey. With plenty of boat troubles and very interesting boarder crossings it lead to some exciting reading.

What shocked me the most was having to travel home with no engine but I definitely won’t say any more on the subject you will need to read the book to find put what happened.

I highly recommend reading this book if you love reading travel writings and are interested in different cultures. The book was that good that I had to read it all in one sitting and its a 12 hour audiobook.

Only the highest of praise goes out to the author and publishers for bringing us this wonderful and exciting story of courage and strength to travel the world under extremely taxing adversities.

Read more here:
https://ladyreading365.wixsite.com/website/post/sea-trials-by-wendy-hinman-ibpa-independent-author-5-stars

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Rave Review for Wendy Hinman’s Sea Trials from Audiobook Blog

Posted on October 16, 2022 by admin

“The writing is excellent, the story is captivating, especially since it’s a true one, and the pacing is just perfect.”

“When we combine Wendy’s superb storytelling abilities with the considerable skills of multiple award-winning narrator Eric G. Dove, we get something unique, a riveting narrative that I’m convinced will appeal to readers of all ages: from kids to young adults and grown-ups alike.”

These are the voyages of the 40-foot sailboat Vela and the brave Wilcox family. In 1973, they set off to sail around the world on the high seas. Their four-year-long mission will turn out to be five actually and during this epic journey, they will have to survive a shipwreck, reconstruct their boat on a deserted island and face many more other such trials and tribulations. With two teenagers on board, a ship in need of repair, a tight budget, rising problems, and without the benefit of modern devices such as a GPS or instant communication devices, the kids and the grown-ups have to find a way to make this work.

I love the sea, I am fascinated by boats, and if I wasn’t blind, I think I would have been thrilled to be able to buy a boat and to do exactly what this family does in the book and what Wendy did in Tightwads on the Loose, especially since I live in Oslo, and there are probably thousands of boats anchored all around the fjords. Alas, I am blind, boats are really expensive, and a guess that syncing them is not that hard, so all I am left with are these wonderful stories, some true – like this one, and others fiction, like those from Clive Cussler. Luckily, I still have access to the occasional cruises to Denmark, and hopefully, other countries to whet my appetite for life on the sea.

As I said, above, the writing is excellent, the story is captivating, especially since it’s a true one, and the pacing is just perfect.

Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire is brought to life in audiobook format by established singer/songwriter, fiction author, avid cruising sailor, and last, but not least, award-winning narrator, Eric G. Dove.

Eric is extremely well suited for this audio production. He reads in an enjoyable voice, he perfectly pronounces all the confusing terms that are most assuredly so familiar to those spending their lives at sea but sound as complete gibberish to non-connoisseurs. Eric delivers a pitch-perfect performance, complete with unique voices for each of the main characters, and he also infuses urgency and emotion into the narration exactly when the action on the page requires it. I know Eric is a narrator for a long time now, and he is always professional to a fault. It’s clear that he does what he loves and loves what he does.

Reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe and The Cast Away, Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire is a fantastic audiobook filled with epic adventures, unforgettable events, and remarkable characters. If you like true stories and love the sea or sailing, I highly recommend Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire and Tightwads on the Loose: A Seven Year Pacific Odyssey by Wendy Hinman. Both these books are written from the heart, with humor, with respect, with knowledge and are extremely enjoyable.

When we combine Wendy’s superb storytelling abilities with the considerable skills of multiple award-winning narrator Eric G. Dove, we get something unique, a riveting narrative that I’m convinced will appeal to readers of all ages: from kids to young adults and grown-ups alike.

I hope that Wendy and her husband will embark soon on a new voyage and that she will write about it. I’m always fascinated by true stories, especially when they are so eloquently written.

Read the review here:
https://theaudiobookblog.com/review-sea-trials/

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Profile of Wendy Hinman in the Authors Guild

Posted on October 15, 2022 by admin

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world?
Stories have served an important role in my life. I’ve been an avid reader my whole life. Writing stories helps me make sense of the world and share my discoveries. I love the idea of brightening someone’s day or offering them another way of looking at the world and they problems they face through my stories.

What are your tried and tested remedies to cure writer’s block?
My cure for writer’s block is to transcribe notes I’ve taken about books I’ve been reading to jump-start my brain with language, character traits, and themes. Then I open my tracking document, which I use to track my ideas and progress. I use an excel spreadsheet with multiple pages to tally my page count and capture various details about story plot and timeline, characters, scenes, language, descriptions and editing progress.

What is your favorite time to write?
I find the best results when I begin writing first thing in the morning for as long as I can sustain before pausing to check email and take care of other pending things. It helps if I keep a regular schedule. Scheduling weekly meetings with my writing group reminds me of my writing goals and offers a regular milestone to measure my progress.

What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received and would like to impart to other writers?
Study books you love and books you don’t and notice what works and what doesn’t. Being an avid reader instills a deep understanding of stories and characters that can guide your gut when you’re writing your own. Being a supporter of books, authors, libraries, and booksellers will pay unexpected dividends, so join the community of fellow book lovers.

What excites you most about being a writer in today’s age?
Being able to reach readers and fellow authors so easily and share our mutual love of books and stories.

Wendy Hinman’s Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire is out now with Salsa Press.

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Audiobook Blog Spotlight on Wendy Hinman’s Sea Trials

Posted on October 10, 2022 by admin


In 2020 I had the pleasure of reviewing Tightwads on the Loose: A Seven Year Pacific Odyssey by award-winning author Wendy Hinman which for me was extremely amusing, written brilliantly with a sense of humor and from the author’s heart.

Now, two years later, Wendy has returned with Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire, a 2017 book that’s now available also in audiobook format.

I’m convinced that this riveting story will appeal to readers of all ages: adults, young adults, and even kids, especially since the audiobook is performed by multiple award-winning narrator Eric G. Dove. The audio production has a runtime of exactly 12 and a half hours, and the publishing has been done by Salsa Press Publishing and Wendy Hinman.

Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire has been awarded Kirkus Best Book of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews, the elite reviewing agency. Fewer than 2% of all books earn a starred review. Even fewer are selected Best Book of the Month and, fewer still, Best Book of the Year. Wendy Hinman’s second book, Sea Trials, can claim all three.

It has also been named a Foreward Reviews best book of the year and a Readers Favorite. It has earned glowing reviews from Cruising World Magazine, Sailing Magazine, Wooden Boat Magazine, Good Old Boat and others, andhas been featured in various gift guides. An excerpt from it was featured in Sail Magazine.

With rave reviews from nearly every national sailing publication plus best-selling authors and readers, it’s clear that this book has popular appeal. I think that even more fascinating is that the story generated big press coverage at the time of the shipwreck (September 1974) and again upon the family’s return after completing their voyage around the world (in July 1978). The story went out over the AP and UPI news wire services and was picked up in various publications around the world, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and newspapers in Toronto and Geneva, among many others, and a television interview with Maury Povich.

You can imagine that I am very excited to listen to it, but first let’s take a look at the Publisher’s Summary so that everyone knows what the story is about and after that, I will tell you more about our award-winning author and narrator.

About the book:

A shipwreck might end a dream of circumnavigating the globe. Not for the Wilcox family. In 1973, the Wilcox family sets off to sail around the world aboard the 40-foot sailboat, Vela. Thirteen months later, they are shipwrecked on a coral reef, with surf tearing a huge hole into the side of their boat. With years invested in saving money, preparing the boat, and learning to navigate by the stars, parents Chuck and Dawn refuse to give up.

Fourteen-year-old Garth is determined to continue, while 11-year-old Linda never wanted to go in the first place. Can they overcome the emotional, physical, and financial challenges to transform from castaways into circumnavigators?

To triumph, they must rebuild their boat on a remote Pacific island. Damage sustained on the reef and a lack of resources haunt them the rest of the way around the world as they face daunting obstacles, including wild weather, pirates, gun boats, mines, and thieves, plus pesky bureaucrats and cockroaches as stubborn as the family.

Without a working engine and no way to communicate with the outside world, they struggle to reach home before their broken rig comes crashing down and they run out of food in a trial that tests them to their limits.

About the author:

Wendy Hinman is an adventurer, speaker, and the award-winning author of two books: Tightwads on the Loose and Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire. Tightwads on the Loose tells the story of her 34,000-mile voyage aboard a 31-foot sailboat with her husband. It has been called a “cult classic,” admired for its unaffected style and refreshing humor, and named a Readers Favorite.

Sea Trials details the harrowing round-the-world voyage of a family who must overcome a shipwreck, gun boats, mines, thieves, scurvy and hunger to achieve their dream.

Wendy is a sought-after speaker who gives entertaining presentations throughout the country at libraries, community centers, and private clubs (as well as online). She writes articles for a variety of publications and reviews books for Foreword Reviews Magazine. She is currently at work on a historical novel. For more information about Wendy, please visit her website by clicking here.

About the narrator:

Eric G. Dove is an award-winning narrator whose career spans over 12 years and 450 titles encompassing numerous genres including thrillers, military fiction, romance, sci-fi, classics, westerns, fantasy, non-fiction, and more. He consistently works with the best publishers in the business, voicing the works of a vast array of authors; Stephen Hunter to Herman Melville, J.R. Ward to Mark Twain.

He is known for his varied and believable characterizations and is adept at virtually any U.S. or international dialect, enabling him to fully distinguish each character, breathing the life into them that the author intended without crossing the hard-to-define line that can turn characters into caricatures.

Eric’s performances become an immersive experience, transporting the listener into the author’s world and ushering the author’s characters into the world of the listener. Among many industry accolades, he was an Audie Award Nominee in 2017 in the crowded “Thriller/Suspense” category and is a multiple Audiofile Earphones Award Winner.

An established singer/songwriter, fiction author, and avid cruising sailor, he enjoys adventuring around the world with wife, Loren and son, Rivers Danger aboard their sloop, Cecilia. Years of sailing on big boats led Eric to the realization that a sailboat stateroom is an ideal acoustic environment for voice recording. Now, he completes numerous projects in his on-board studio while also co-producing, with Loren, their family travel YouTube series, “SailAway”.

I can’t wait to start this new adventure and to take an imaginary epic trip Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire, I already know that Wendy is a terrific writer and Eric a fabulous narrator, so I’m sure that I will have a wonderful time. I will see you very soon here with a full review for Sea Trials but until then, take care, stay safe, and don’t forget, always listen with your heart!

Read more at:
https://theaudiobookblog.com/sea-trials-spotlight/

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Check out Sea Trials by Wendy Hinman in all formats

Posted on August 27, 2022 by admin

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2022 Wooden Boat Festival

Posted on August 21, 2022 by admin

Wendy Hinman and Garth Wilcox will be sharing snippets of their boat building adventures about the Garth Wilcox designed 38-foot wooden boat they are building in their backyard workshop.

(Velella, the boat they sailed around the Pacific will also be featured in the show. Here’s an article Wendy recently wrote about Velella and her Legacy.)

Building a 38-foot Cold-Molded Boat Saturday September 10 at 11:30am. Presentation details here.

Catch the inside scoop about people currently building a modern 38-foot cold-molded wooden boat in a backyard workshop. Adventurers Wendy Hinman and Garth Wilcox spent 7 years sailing 34,000 miles around the Pacific aboard a light displacement 31-footer in which Garth could not stand or sit comfortably. After this voyage with his wife and an earlier one around the globe with his family as a teen, Garth felt he had done sufficient “research” to determine what kind of boat he might want to build for his next voyage. Using his skills as a professional naval architect and experience gleaned in a circumnavigation of the world in a 40-foot double ender that barely survived a shipwreck, Garth Wilcox designed his dream cruising boat. Together with his wife and sailing partner Wendy Hinman, he is building a boat for future adventures. Find out what they are building and why. Learn about the choices they’ve had to make and the process they’ve undertaken to build this boat. You may notice that many decisions and boat features of their new boat were inspired by their little voyager Velella, which will be featured in the festival, along with photos of her construction and adventures.

Here’s more about the 45th Annual Wooden Boat Festival:

Sept 9-11, 2022

Hours: Friday & Saturday: 9 AM – 6 PM, music & dancing ’til midnight; Sunday: 9 AM – 5 PM

About this event

Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival is the largest wooden boat festival in North America—a place where kids and adults alike experience the magic of getting on the water, the beauty of wooden boats, and the richness of our maritime culture.

Learn from the experts, swap stories with fellow wooden boat aficionados, and bring your family for a weekend they’ll never forget. With so many different ways to adventure out on the water, there’s no better opportunity to experience our Victorian seaport from the deck of a stunning wooden schooner or at the oars of a historic replica longboat.

Expanded a little each year, the Festival honors its traditions while inviting energetic debate about the latest innovation. Check out our website or our Facebook page for the most recent 2022 info.

Purchase your tickets to the Wooden Boat Festival by August 15th and be entered into a drawing to win a free two-hour sail on La Vie en Rose at Wooden Boat Festival—a $575 value!

Three lucky winners will be drawn for private sails and the winners can bring up to six people.

In addition to the free sails, all ticket purchases by August 15th will be automatically entered for a chance to win one of: 10 Yeti mugs, 5 Festival hats, 5 Festival t-shirts, and 5 Festival Pub Glasses.

Tickets include: Access to all Festival boats, all daytime presentations and demonstrations, exhibitors, music performances, kids’ activities, and food vendors. A portion of the Wooden Boat Festival ticket sales goes to support the year-round programs and events at the Northwest Maritime Center!

**After purchasing your tickets online, you can collect them during the Festival at Will Call (by the Festival Main Gate). You can also purchase tickets day-of at the Main Gate.**

Single-Day Tickets: $25

Discounted tickets rates are $20 for seniors 65+, students (13-18), and active military personnel with ID. Ticket holder eligibility will be verified at the gate.

Three-Day (Fri-Sun) Tickets: $50

Discounted tickets rates are $40 for seniors 65+, students (13-18), and active military personnel with ID. Ticket holder eligibility will be verified at the gate.

**Kids 12 and under get in free.**

R2AK Blazer Party (Friday, September 9, 6-8 PM). Get your tickets here. Join us for the R2AK Blazer Party September 9th, 6-8 PM at the Northwest Maritime Center and mix it up with racers and R2AK high command. We’re throwing that finish line party, recognizing the world records that were established, handing out some awards (including the coveted “Dirtbag Award” for those who finished with the cheapest boat), announcing the details for next year’s race, and snacking and toasting.

SPECIAL HEADLINER WORKSHOPS! This year we’re offering special workshops with world-renowned boating experts Nigel Calder and Lin Pardey. These four workshops are an extra charge and space is limited!

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