OAR NorthwestInterested in group dynamics? I am. I will be on a 29-foot rowboat with 3 other stinky, big guys for up to 100 days. How will the four of us interact when we spend all this time on the water together? With no room for a physical exit from the boat? The social sciences give […]
The James Robert Hanssen trucks out of Seattle tomorrow, bound for Senegal. After applying the shrink-wrap hug into the wee hours of Monday morning, we’ve all had a brief opportunity to do this: … … yup, a whole lotta nothing! Well, at least a whole lot of other stuff NOT related to a […]
Expedition planning is what you do when dreaming of the reward. It’s somewhat masochistic at times, what with the staying up late beating your head against the keyboard, showering the fiberglass off your body as best you can, needing the boat in 3 places at once to finalize upgrades. All of this hand wringing suddenly […]
The James Robert Hanssen is on display all week long, and through the weekend in Seattle’s South Lake Union. Come on down between September 12th-16th to see the completely renovated ocean rowboat that is rowing across the Atlantic Ocean in December 2012’s CWF Africa to the Americas expedition. We’ll have rowers Jordan & Pat, as well as […]
I get a huge kick out of taking the ocean rowboat to boat shows. Nothing quite like comparing sumptuous yachts to our stout and tiny rowboat. In fact, our vessel actually came with a disclaimer warning us it was not a pleasure boat, but built specifically for rowing oceans — as if that wasn’t obvious. […]