Deception Pass Dash

The Deception Pass Dash is held annually in December, a month not known for fine oceangoing weather in Puget Sound.  Indeed, this year it was windy, cold, and raining.

It's "the brainchild of evil sadistic paddlers Will Robens and Don Kiesling," and is a race at slack tide around Deception Island, before the current makes it impossible to progress through the pass.  There are seventeen classes of watercraft invited to compete.