Council of Nine Council of Nine Council of Nine can refer to: In Greek mythology, when Prometheus gave Fire to mankind, he infuriated Zeus, so to punish Prometheus, Zeus had him chained to a rock and every day an eagle came down and ate his liver. Because he was immortal, the liver grew back and the eagle returned to do the same to him the next day. To punish mankind, Zeus and eight other deities gathered to form the Council of Nine. The council members were Aphrodite, Apollo, Athena, Demeter, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Poseidon and Zeus. Together this council created Pandora, and sent
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