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Utah deaf, blind students complete 70-mile boat race in just 36 hours

Eight students, which included four girls and four boys, spent months preparing and practicing.

(FOX 13) Student from the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind competed in the Seventy48 boat race in Washington.

Port Townsend, Wash. • Students and chaperones with the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind called this race redemption.

It was last year that this group participated in the Seventy48 boat race from Tacoma, Washington to Port Townsend, Washington. They came up 20 miles short of the finish before they had to pull out due to the weather conditions.

“Last year was a little rough — the weather was definitely a lot worse than this year,” said Landon Pearce, an 11th grader at the school.

Pearce is one of two students from last year who returned this year to run it back and try the race again.

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