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Comment on Viking Hats: More Popular than Ocean Rowboats by lats

lats — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:05:58 +0000

Whose da Viking??

Comment on OAR Northwest welcomes honorary crew member by Lats

Lats — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:54:25 +0000

I’m glad he has well formed Lats.

Congrats mate. I look forward to meeting the little canuck!
Lats

Comment on Expeditions by Ignite at Google I/O

Ignite at Google I/O — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:35:50 +0000

[...] to the esoteric to the absurd. They included a (search engine) search for the meaning of life, rowing across the North Atlantic ocean, battleship with real life scale model boats and guns, and a deconstruction of funny cat pictures [...]

Comment on Baby is Born by Aaron Ausland

Aaron Ausland — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:33:05 +0000

Congratulations Brad! My wife and I had our second child about 8 weeks ago – Ava London, born here in Bogotá, Colombia. Its a journey that so far has just gotten better and better with each step.

Comment on Jordan Hanssen by Seattle By Foot

Seattle By Foot — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:28:33 +0000

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Comment on La Push to Grays Harbor, Part One: Sea Stacks and S’mores by Administrator

Administrator — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:02:17 +0000

Hi Chris – I’ll reply to you in more detail via email, but yes we do have some overlap. You just simply cannot get enough good leverage on a short inboard oar with enough outboard length to do some real boat moving. Depending on the conditions, our thumbs/hands were saved due to carrying the handles carefully through the recovery with appropriate spacing, but the real damage came to our shins.

Greg

Comment on La Push to Grays Harbor, Part One: Sea Stacks and S’mores by chris duff

chris duff — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:10 +0000

I met Greg in Port Townsend the weekend of the rowing race… I am preparing for a rowing trip from Scotland to Iceland in May of 2011 and have a couple of questions you guys would be well suited to answer…. Very basic- do you have your oar handles over lapping- if so, what do you do in rough water? I’m finding that its a real danger to smashing my thubs on the buttons. Also , what kind of rudder are you using? Hope the preparations for the 2011 race are going well. Chris

Comment on Welcome to oarnorthwest.com! by Royal Scott Davis

Royal Scott Davis — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:55:26 +0000

Hi rowing team,
It was great to meet Jordan & Rick in Port Townsend in June & have the opportunity to talk with them about their experiences of rowing on the ocean. Unfortunately I did not meet the rest of the team. I just briefed thru your La Push sea trials & appears that it went well enuff. It was interesting to hear that you are able to make ruffly 3 kts which is what I was able to make on my rowing trips and over the full length of the trips I averaged out at 2 kts. (that included daysn that I didn’t row). I made a 6 month 2,500 mile solo row from Port Townsend to Glacier Bay & back in 1994. It was gratifying to see the similarities in design between your open ocean racing boat & my Inside Passsage cruiser as I essentially had to think up my boat.
If there’s any thing I can share with you about my experiences of long distance rowing & what I learned from it please don’t hesitate to ask. I’d be happy to talk with all of you about it.
Best of Luck,
Scott Davis
Rowing Vessel Crystal Vision

Comment on La Push to Gray’s Harbor, Part Two: Leaving La Push by Twilight News

Twilight News — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:52:21 +0000

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Comment on Rough Water Racing at NAOWRC by jordan

jordan — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:45:17 +0000

You are right Steve, I knew their were a lot of safety boats and logicaly I know to stay with the boat because it will float its just hard for me not to imagine a swim in that washing machine. Thanks again for putting it together!