Days of sea anchor… Nighttime rowing… Nighttime philosophy… Ocean rower’s jetlag. Beneath starry skies on a moonless night, the waves seem to me as if the cortex of my brain had become flattened and unraveled. No longer a mass of critical thinking, but a pelagic soup, as thoughts float freely and unbound to any logic. The silly […]
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It is now two weeks later and I have switched rowing partners and sleep schedules, but for the sake of continuity I will continue with my old day’s schedule… By the way, we switch partners when we are ready for a change or feel like it is a good time to do so. Nothing is […]
We’re officially across the ½-way point, but have very difficult weather on the horizon for the next several days. Angie Pendergrass and the UW Meteorological team are forecasting heavy westerlies (headwind) against big westerly swells. Overcast skies are limiting battery charge. While we want to go west toward Miami, the ocean and the weather are […]
Yes of course we do, but rowing also quickly became the easiest thing to do on the boat. Persistent northerly winds and beam seas over the first several days were probably the hardest rowing days, and since then our bodies have adapted, and we have turned into lean, mean, rowing machines. We now feel most […]
It’s impossible to be in such a slow moving boat and not think about who has come before us. Our experience seems so much like theirs in a few ways, and so completely different in most. One of the biggest differences is that we know where we are going, know that Miami really does exist, […]