OAR Northwest[Greg here in Mission Control – I dug up this early blog that got posted but never went live for some reason. A good look at life on a tiny ocean rowboat reveals the reality of 4 men in a small space. Avert your reading eyes if you don’t believe in the existence of bodily […]
A few blogs ago I talked about seeing some dead, floating fish on the ocean surface. Since then we’ve seen about five more. All of them seem to be the same fish, and we finally got close enough to take a picture. They look like they have been bleached by the sun and, save for […]
This blog’s been in the hopper for a while, but if you are just joining us, the long and the short is that we are rowing Dakar to Miami and have about a 1/3 left to go (~1,300 nautical miles). Earlier in the trip we broke two of our six oars, and our power went […]
My awesome beard is big, and thick enough to hold two pencils. It can hold a 1/4-20 4-inch stainless steel bolt. Also a carabiner. My awesome beard took 8 months to grow… and I even trimmed it a few times. It got respect in Senegal. Men would motion to the beard and give nods of agreement even […]
Some of the nicest, most personable people I have met, grew up in large families that lived in a small space. Their personalities mesh easily within varying team dynamics and hard-to-tolerate teammates. Small spaces can often hold more love than large, sprawling mansions. Rowing across the ocean in a tiny rowboat is similar, and a […]