Before pulling in the sea anchor this morning, we spent a good part of the last 24 hours slowly drifting with the wind and waves in a north-easterly direction. In the wee hours of the night, things let up and we were free from our weather shackles for the time being. As of now we’re […]
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Day 62: Whales!!!
The shape had hardly time to register in my mind. When it did it was halfway into the water, and the MASSIVE splash seemed huge even from a half-mile away. It was a humpback, by our best guess… bubble net feeding, circling around the plankton that makes this massive mammal’s food, and making a net […]
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Day 61: The dirty blog
[Greg here in Mission Control – I dug up this early blog that got posted but never went live for some reason. A good look at life on a tiny ocean rowboat reveals the reality of 4 men in a small space. Avert your reading eyes if you don’t believe in the existence of bodily […]
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Day 60: More dead fish
A few blogs ago I talked about seeing some dead, floating fish on the ocean surface. Since then we’ve seen about five more. All of them seem to be the same fish, and we finally got close enough to take a picture. They look like they have been bleached by the sun and, save for […]
This blog’s been in the hopper for a while, but if you are just joining us, the long and the short is that we are rowing Dakar to Miami and have about a 1/3 left to go (~1,300 nautical miles). Earlier in the trip we broke two of our six oars, and our power went […]