The crew is arriving at 6pm Eastern Daylight Time aboard the commercial vessel Heijan. They are uninjured, shaken, but excited to get back to land this evening to reunite with family and friends, and share the challenges and great successes from the 73 days at sea prior to the capsize. More to follow. Greg Spooner […]
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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 […]