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Race challenges teams to pedal, paddle or row 70-mile course on Puget Sound in 48 hours
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Landon Pearce, a visually impaired 10th grader at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, paddles with his team on Lake Powell on Saturday, March 27, 2021. They are training for the SEVENTY48, a 70-mile-human-powered boat race from Tacoma to Port Townsend, Wash.
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
It was the All Hands on Deck’s maiden voyage and the crew was struggling to keep the self-built vessel on course on Lake Powell.
It was the first time the crew from the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind had paddled together on a boat, any boat. The weight distribution on the two pontoons crafted in Salt Lake City was off and the relative paddling strength of the crew members was still unclear.