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Jacolelcap

Trad climber
Chicago, Denver/ Poland
Apr 29, 2013 - 02:18am PT
More comparison of long-distance paddle records

http://www.takepart.com/article/2011/02/14/longest-paddle-crossing-atlantic-98-days-23-hours-42-minutes-64

In 1928 Franz Romer crossed the Atlantic from Portugal to Puerto Rico in a folding kayak dependent on just a compass, sextant and a barometer. After landing in St. Thomas and a brief sail over to San Juan Harbor in Puerto Rico, Romer again took to sea, bound for New York. Unfortunately, he missed a hurricane warning by one hour and steered straight into the storm. No trace of him was ever found.

In 1956 Hannes Lindemann spent 72 days paddling from the Canary Islands to the British Virgin Islands in a store-bought folding kayak, subsisting primarily on beer, evaporated milk, rainwater and speared fish. His mantra? “West … Never give up … Never give up.”

August 1985 to February 1986 Polish Piotr Chmielinski, the first and only person in history to paddle 4200 miles of Amazon - the longest river in the world. Also discovered and canoed down Colca River (Peru, more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon) in 1981. Dwo Guiness records.

In 1987 Ed Gillet left from California heading for Hawaii; the crossing took him 63 days. Out of radio contact for eight weeks, he ran out of food, endured a 40-hour stretch of sleep deprivation and winds that nearly drove him north of Hawaii. He was described as being in a “hallucinatory state” when he arrived at Kahului Harbor on Maui.Used a parafoil kite to take advantage of the wind.

Englishman Peter Bray was the first to paddle west to east across the Atlantic in 2001, without the tropical trade winds to ease his passage. His first attempt nearly cost him his life: Asleep after his first day at sea, he awoke to find his cockpit three-quarters filled with water and his pumping systems inoperable. Bray survived 32 hours submerged in 36-degree seas and spent the next four months learning to walk again. A year later, he launched again from St. John's, Newfoundland, reaching Beldereg, Ireland, 75 days later.

In 2007 Australian “Adventurer of the Year” Andrew McAuley attempted the relatively short (1,000 mile) crossing of the very wild Tasman Sea, from Tasmania to New Zealand. In 29 days he got to within one day—30 miles—of Milford Sound, New Zealand, where his wife and young son waited on the beach for him. He disappeared on that last day; his boat would be found, but never any sign of Andrew.

In late 2007 a pair of young Australians—James Castrission and Justin James—successfully crossed the Tasman Sea in a custom-built, double-kayak, in 62 days.

2010-2011 Polish Aleksander Doba complete the first continent-to-continent crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by sea kayak using the power of his muscles alone. He paddled a total of 3,345 miles (average speed: 1.4 miles per hour; average daily distance, 33.5 miles; longest day, 78.6 miles) in 98 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes. He was 65 years old. When he arrived to Brazil he weighed 64 kg. He lost 14 kg in 14 weeks of the journey.[

http://maps.google.pl/maps/ms?hl=pl&ie=UTF8&t=h&source=embed&msa=0&msid=101247226215637783232.000492e43d80ef4361455&ll=13.987376,-17.42981&spn=1.865523,2.334595

http://www.canoekayak.com/touring-kayak/landfall-aleksander-doba-reaches-south-america/


orle

climber
Apr 29, 2013 - 06:29am PT
2010-2011 Polish Aleksander Doba complete the first continent-to-continent crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by sea kayak using the power of his muscles alone. He paddled a total of 3,345 miles (average speed: 1.4 miles per hour; average daily distance, 33.5 miles; longest day, 78.6 miles) in 98 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes. He was 65 years old. When he arrived to Brazil he weighed 64 kg. He lost 14 kg in 14 weeks of the journey.

Hardest of the hard

Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Apr 29, 2013 - 06:53am PT
all pretty badass, however, if you read about the history of Hawaii, you will find that early Samoans sailed from Easter Island on rafts with no radio, no beacons, no map, not even sure if anything was out there, knowing that half the people who sailed away never came back,

they would carry live pigs on board, till they got really hungry, eventually some of them lucked out and mad it thru the doldrums to the islands,

where does a Samoan sleep?

where ever he wants,

no wait, the thread says Modern times, ok then howabout

boat people from viet nam, most who could not swim, braving pirates, stormy seas, and an unknown destiny, crammed in the hulls of overloaded boats,

Magic Ed

Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Apr 30, 2013 - 05:56pm PT
http://magicedspotrerochico.com/?p=606
BASE104

Social climber
An Oil Field
Apr 30, 2013 - 07:15pm PT
Matt Rutherford just finished a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the Americas. From Chesapeake Bay north to the NW Passage, around and down the west side of the American Continents, around the horn and back up the east coasts to home. Non stop, around 300 days.

What makes it badass is that he did it in a refurbished 27 foot fiberglass sloop. An Albin Vega, like mine (don't worry, they are WAY affordable).

He had some hairy times between Greenland and Baffin Island with fog and icebergs. He didn't have radar. Owning one of those boats, a bergy bit would stove the hull fairly easily.

Nothing stands up to the solo adventures of the old guys. With GPS and PLB's and all that stuff, the true old adventures are hard to come by.
BASE104

Social climber
An Oil Field
Apr 30, 2013 - 07:25pm PT
When I cast off, whenever that might be, I might put Deuce down as a guy to visit. As we have read, however, that is a sporty stretch of water.

Brothers and Sisters. You can get a decent and totally seaworthy sailboat for under twenty grand. Some of the smaller ones, who still have sterling reputations, many ocean crossings and at least a few circumnavigations, can be picked up in pretty decent shape for much less than a new car. 10 to 15 grand will get you a Contessa 26 or an Albin Vega.

Smaller boats are slower and capsize easier, but there are quite a few designs that have such good positive stability that they recover immediately from a capsize. If you do your crossings at the right time of year, you are usually going to have good weather. There are pilot charts and books that discuss timing for each leg of most sailing routes in the world.

Go buy "twenty small sailboats that Will Take You Anywhere."

Then just go sailing, crewing, and scrounging for experience. Kind of like that army of submen who used to follow Kurt Smith around all of the time when he first showed up in the valley.

I need to get Walling a boat so that we can race in the Single Handed Transpac in a couple of years. You can live on them, and they are bigger than a VW van, but not by much. The bigger boats are pretty comfy, but far more expensive to maintain.

healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Feb 22, 2015 - 09:56pm PT
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