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35 miles a day is easy, right? Then do it and take the prize.
The 2025 race application are open

Application deadline: May 1 2025
Registration deadline: May 15, 2025

To Qualify

While there is no specific set of qualifiactions that are absolutely required to participate, teams will be asked to submit adventure resumes for consideration by the shadowy Vetting Team. Successful race applicants will demonstrate proficiency in the following areas:

– navigation
– first aid
– able to row/paddle/pedal for long periods of time
– radio use
– collision awareness and avoidance
– trip planning and voyage logistics
– necessary repair skills for chosen vessel

Similarly, participant vessels will be considered along with crew qualifications. Factors include:

– design and construction
– inherent buoyancy
– stability
– safety equipment

And you’re gonna need to be healthy.

At the end of this page is where your commitment grows from aspirations over coffee to putting money behind that mouth. You’ll be paying $50 to apply, and that is not refundable. This means you are being vetted, because not every joker who thinks they can race, can really race.



After you’re accepted (hooray!)

Give us a couple of weeks for the vetting—you will be directed to a long and irritating registration form. There are lots of people looking for information, not just us. Search and Rescue agencies are interested too, just to give you an idea. (It’s probably a triple-shot form, whiskey or coffee, take your choice.)

Costs

50 bucks to apply
If you are accepted:

125 bucks to register
+50 bucks per additional crew
+50 bucks to rent our tracker
+100 bucks into the pot for the first finishers. Yes, there are classes.

And you’ll have to pony up a refundable $200 deposit for the GPS tracker. You’ll get that back unless you get cheeky with the tracker and submarine it.

The Slacker Tax.

My friends, we spend so much time waiting. We know being accepted is like being in the race, but it’s not. Registering is when you are in and when we do all the work to prepare for you.

Other races offer an Early Bird Special—like the first 50 register get a fancy keychain—but let’s get real; no one wants that damn keychain. And it’s not early registration we want; we just don’t want late registration. Late registration is hell for us who work here. T-shirts, updated safety info, change logs with officials, stats, race numbers, beer to pour, updates to websites…and we just want to change the batteries in the loudspeaker and fuel up the safety boat and race.

So, we don’t have an Early Bird Special; we do have a Slacker Tax. It means the later you wait the more we are going to charge you.

If you wait til after March 15th to register, it’ll cost 50 bucks more.

Simply put, please register right after you are accepted! And apply now!

Cancellations

Cancellations must be received in writing (email ok) 60 days prior to the event. We’ll keep 30% to teach you a lesson.
Cancellations made less than 60 days prior to event will not be refunded.
If we cancel, 100% of fees can be refunded.

View the full refund & cancellation policy here.

And so you know, we’re pumped for this. It’s a hot minute before this race starts, but we’ll all be on the water soon, and it’s gonna be a hell of a time.

2025 Applications are Open

Apply Now