This will be my third time in the Raid, but the first with “crew” on my boat. Martine is coming along this time, and she keeps talking about how she’ll likely need to tow my boat with a kayak. (She knows me too well.)

The Boat

As I submit this form, my R2AK hopes are hanging by a thread. IF I get in for 2026, then I’ll have returned from some form of R2AK adventure in this boat. If I DON’T get into R2AK, then look for me to have a metric tonne of something to prove. Prove what, I don’t know.

Anyway… the boat: It’s a Boston Whaler Supercat 17. A beach cat, it was the designers answer to the fact that Hobie 16s have a tendency to pitchpole. So these hulls are eliptical in cross section, with lots of reserve buoyancy up front.

Oh… and I’m not using stretchy standing rigging like last year’s raid. 😉