Over the last few years, OAR Northwest has been a lot of things: We started as four guys who wanted to race a rowboat across the North Atlantic, and we built this organization to do it. Thankfully, we succeeded, won the race, set a Guinness World Record, and weren’t afraid to try this again. As […]
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Day 18: SEA BEASTS!
Endless… endless… ever changing energetic mass of blue wetness. So much sky, such simple ingredients… at first. Then the sea beasts come. They are free to go wherever they want in this pelagic medium. Unless they are just floaters drifting by they have all the power to decide if they are seen. I am sure […]
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Super Pod (with audio)
[Jordan sent this in yesterday, his own opportunity to tell the story of the dolphin stampede instead of my game of telephone to you.] I thought that six years ago on the North Atlantic it would be my first and last time to see one. They came in the morning – playful bodies, light brown […]
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Day 9 – Flying Fish
A six inch white and silver sliver rockets out of the water. A bird? No, not with those incandescent wings…insect like. It glides over the rollicking waves, unperturbed at the irregularity of the watery medium it has escaped. The flying fish is my new favorite creature. I have known about them for as long as I […]
A wave? What does a wave look like? On a blue bird day they are crystal blue and a six-foot wave from the seat of an ocean rowboat seems huge. There is the swell that rolls by mainly from one direction. On top of this are small wind waves making the water lumpy and hard […]