Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan is an oil painting of 1623 by Dirck van Baburen of the Utrecht School, and an example of Baroque chiaroscuro. The painting represents a tale from Greco-Roman mythology. Mercury, the messenger of the gods, watches the club-footed blacksmith god, Vulcan, punish the bold and cunning Titan Prometheus for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals. Prometheus's punishment is to be bound to a rock and to have his liver consumed daily by an eagle. The painting mysteriously has two signatures: the first is a clear signature below
Race to Alaska was added from Tacoma, Washington to Port Townsend. The first race was in 2015. In 2016, 44 teams were accepted and 26 finished. In 2017, the race introduced the "Boat Buyback Prize", through which the race organizers would offer each boat that finished $10,000 to buy their boat, regardless of the boat's value. In 2018, the race introduced the Seventy48 race, a pre-race from Tacoma to Port Townsend. It is a 70-statute-mile human-powered only race in which the winner of the race receives as a prize all of the entry fees paid by participants. The race begins in Port Townsend