Yeah...a great idea degraded by factors of scale - or size of boats as the case may be. The first time there were multiple big trimarans doing it in 5-7 days that kind of killed the interest for me. I suspect it's killing the interest for most small-boat adventurers as well. What's the point of participating if it's not mostly about adventuring with your 'tribe', so to speak? Not easy to fix the race design...there could be a boat size limit. But how to define the limit is tricky. Can't just say X feet long, because some boat types that were a huge adventure to try the R2AK in - like that six-man outrigger one year, or multi-person rowing boats - would be too long, or, bigger sailboats would still be small enough but 'too big' to really fit the adventure spirit. It was a wild-idea scruffy fringe event to start with and thus drew mostly small-boat adventurers. And, it was only a matter of time until some fast big $$ big boat people noticed it and jumped in. cheers, John On 6/6/23 16:23, Rusty Knorr via montgomery_boats wrote:
What a shame. I have very little interest in yet another corporate sponsor big boat race that the average sailor has zero chance in competing against. Allowing going outside separated the route and killed the race in my opinion. The first couple of years were thrilling, and less “yachty”. I don’t follow it anymore.
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