Team Ketch Me If You Kan competes in the Race To Alaska, a 750-mile engineless, unsupported boat race from Port Townsend, Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska. — a 750-mile, engineless, unsupported boat race from Port Townsend, Wash., to Ketchikan — is back after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
First place wins $10,000 cash, which is nailed to a piece of wood in Ketchikan, and, famously, second place gets a set of steak knives. All that the rest of the finishers get is a sense of accomplishment and some good stories to tell.” that stitches those stories together to take the viewer along for an epic journey, while explaining what the race is all about.
Zach Carver directed “Race to Alaska,” which is hilarious in some moments and deadly serious in others. Carver says that duality is true to the competitors and the race itself.: I mean, it’s an interesting thing, because if you took your time, the Inside Passage is very doable. People have done it in just a basic canoe. But the element of racing makes it much more challenging. And when you remove the motor from the equation, it gets pretty harrowing.
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