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 […]
850 miles to Miami Since I started writing about a life in the day of an ocean rowing fool the times have gotten more and more enjoyable and comfortable (at least for me they have, I can’t say for certain whether any one of the crew is slowly going crazy and plotting to kill all […]
900 miles to Miami Power conservation continues. When we realized that the wind generator did not work and disconnected it, we also realized that we had only been using one of the three batteries for weeks and making it work. Now we had all three and the solar panels seemed to be charging them for […]
Countdown: 950 miles to go Fear. What is it good for? I think many folks thought I was crazy or just flat out lying when I told them I had no fear going into this ocean row. This is something I’ve struggled with many times in my life; people thinking I’m either in denial or suppressing my […]
1,000 nautical miles to go We just finished our final full-ration of food the day before yesterday. Each full-ration day had 5,500+ calories of food for each rower. We now have 40 days of 3,500 calories per rower per day, and a healthy supply of left-over rations from our first 67 days at sea. Our […]