OAR NorthwestThe first two questions people ask us are: 1) “Are you crazy?” 2) “Where do you go to the bathroom?” The third? “So what the heck do you guys eat out there?!” Our menu took us two months of planning to allocate proper nutrition and caloric intake for this Atlantic journey. Here’s what’s cookin’ …
Going out on long journeys with monotonous physical activity is a wonderful meditation and very peace-giving. Sure, there is the odd scary bit where your adrenal glands fire, oars break and you experience extreme stress. The reward of pushing through the extreme, though, is a meditative, physical presence – A connective existence that is simple, […]
I am not a rower. Yes, it’s true. I’m on a boat with 3 men whose combined years of rowing experience is more than the years of my life. I’ve never followed rowing, and if you had asked me a year ago about the Canadian Men’s 8+ in Beijing (i.e.- the race Adam won a […]
So we have been billing our little vessel as “the world’s most technologically advanced rowboat.” Although our hull is no longer made of the latest materials and designs, we have a glut of fancy/awesome electronics that – a la our power situation (hopefully resolved now) – we have been struggling to keep working… Prognosis: optimistic. […]
A week and a half ago, I sent a message to Greg at OAR Northwest Mission Control that I had chipped my tooth. When you’re at least 1,000 nautical miles from land, this has the potential to be anything from a slight nuisance to a serious medical emergency. Luckily, Greg’s dad is a dentist so […]