Expedition Report Week 4 – Module 2:2 Route so far: Narrative summary of week prior: This week has been a trying one. From Greg, Mission control: Got a short message via the Yellowbrick at 10:21am (2/14/13): “No power. going black. yb in use.” We have SMS messaging option via the Yellowbrick, limited email in and out. […]
[Great news! Clouds have cleared an given the crew enough solar energy to get a few new blogs out. No new pictures yet, so we’ll supplement from Erinn Hale’s pictures from Dakar. Here’s one about power rationing and oar breakage. -Greg] Conservation. What does that word mean? A lot of things to a lot of […]
Daily Update 2.4 Week 3: Module 2: Date 2/15/13 One of the most recent theories of the exploration of the Americas involves the Chinese. The 1421 theory puts forth the ideas that the Chinese had not only discovered the Americas, but had traveled extensively within both continents. This theory is based largely on a map […]
Daily Update 2.3 Week 3: Module 2: Date 2/14/13 Happy Valentines Day! Christopher Columbus, Leif Ericsson! Anyone else want a shot at the title of “first to discover” the Americas? When talking of discovery by Europeans or Africans or Chinese it must be noted that this is only a discovery in the sense that they […]
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 […]