OAR NorthwestBy Greg Spooner Customary to any opening weekend at Seattle Boat Show, vendors crowd into the local pubs to toast the opening of boating season (now just a few months away), and celebrate the 10-day booth jockeying that has recently commenced. Since this was to be the only time all four of us would be […]
By Greg Spooner Well, the 2011 Seattle Boat Show is now officially underway, and with it, we’re announcing plans for the next big ocean row: Africa to the Americas By rowing the mid-Atlantic from West Africa to Venezuela, we’re bridging the oceanic gap and connecting Right to Play communities. Make sure to follow along here at […]
By Jordan Hanssen “Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.” T.H. I find it odd, considering I’m writing a book about an adventure that it takes a long time for any adventure yarn to get on my reading list. Thus why it has taken […]
How does Jordan succeed on the Atlantic? Good training. Let’s start with some background… Jordan Hanssen’s rowing career began at University of Puget Sound in 2001. Since then he was a 4-time Northwest Collegiate Rowing Champion, gold medalist at WIRA, and voted “Mr. Crew.” The latter was to that point his biggest accomplishment (you know, if […]
Obviously I had some work to do to prepare myself for a row across the Atlantic. Motion sickness, something I thought I had eliminated with my years of flight testing, needed to be solved. What was I to do? There was no way I would allow myself to become a useless human log, becoming a […]