Statement Seattle, WA (4/6/13) – At 3:50am Pacific Daylight Time this morning I received a phone call from the United States Coast Guard station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, indicating that a distress signal was activated on board the ocean rowboat, “James Robert Hanssen”. The boat and its crew were 73 days into a trans-Atlantic […]
Author: greg
It was an exciting morning had by all aboard the James Robert Hannsen today during a morning “work day.” I’ll let him tell the story himself, but the gist of it is that in the span of just 3 hours, we got 2 sets of good sparks from the wind turbine, blew out our power, got […]
Our big 1500kg rowboat dances. Not so much in the beam seas we have been experiencing, but a few of the right waves came our way today. Aft (from directly behind) is perfect, but even at 65 and seventy degrees from aft can start the rhythm. The swell rises and we slide down the face, […]
[Good evening to all. Sorry for the delay… worked all day at the “real job” and just settling in.] The sun rose on the James Robert Hanssen and the primary navigation monitor on the bulkhead was “flickering.” At about 8am boat time (1:30am Seattle time) my phone rang and on the other end was Jordan delivering […]
In case you hadn’t heard the news, late last night a big beam wave crashed into the rowboat and broke one of our “unbreakable” oars right at the oarlock. We made a point to make the oars and oarlocks as robust as possible, and in doing so we made a new way to break a […]