Team Thank you Blake Hansen competing in the
2020 Seventy48 Endurance Race held on June 5, 2020
Our mission is to complete the Seventy48 human-powered boat race from Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway to Pt. Townsend, Wa. We will be using a three-person, cycle powered pontoon boat named the Blake Hansen after the kind fellow who let us borrow the boat for a day, or two.
How to Cheer: #DontSinkBlakeHansen
Joel Ballezza
Ballezza is trail runner and mountaineer who has completed over 80 mountain ultramarathons with distances from 31-101 miles in length. During junior high and high school he rowed competitive skull and sweep crew for over five years. Ballezza is also SCUBA wet and drysuit certified.
Nicolas Michel-Hart
Michel-Hart has sailed coastal and offshore his entire life. He has wintered over at the South Pole and spent a decade building and operating research camps on drifting ice in the arctic ocean requiring physical and psychological strength in harsh and unforgiving environments. He has completed numerous unsupported bicycle tours, and currently cycles around 75 miles per week.
Leon Nettels
Nettles is an world-renowned bike polo champion and cyclist. Prior to his escapades on two wheels he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on a 36’ Hans Christian. It was a tough 3 weeks from New York, New York to Horta, Azores. Then it took another 8 days from the Azores to the Rock of Gibraltar. Nettles also lived on and maintained a 42’ Spencer Sloop for 3 years at both Shilshole and Foss Harbor Marinas.