What Could Have Been: Draken Once Considered Competing in the R2AK

Tribute to What Might Have Been

I sat at the bar of The Sloop Tavern in Ballard with a manila envelope I denoted TOPP HEMMELIG, “Top Secret” in Norwegian according to Google Translate. Unbeknownst to me, I was to rendezvous with a Swede. Little turns like these must delight the cosmos.

What was inside this top secret folder? A Race to Alaska (R2AK) race packet. A giant blue, sports fa…