Belesarius Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 So some dude who apparently used to run the ScotiaBank Marathon here in Toronto just rowed from San Francisco to Australia. 1st solo row from NA to AU. 209 Days. That is some impressive seamanship and one hell of a long distance to go under your own power over the ocean. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/john-beeden-solo-pacific-row-1.3381261 http://solopacificrow.com/ The boat in question: SOCKS II Socks II was designed by Naval architect Phil Morrison and built by Jamie Fabrizio in Cornwall in the UK. Jamie is an outstanding boat builder and and built John’s first ocean rowing boat, Socks I, in which John rowed across the Atlantic in 2011/12. Socks II has an number of design changes made following lessons learned on John’s Atlantic crossing. John wouldn’t dream of going to sea in a boat built by anyone else. note: Socks is now renamed “Happy Socks” and owned by Sara Outen who is on the on the last leg of her London2London circumnavigation crossing the North Atlantic from Cape Cod to London. She is 6m long and measures 159cm across her beam. She is constructed of closed cell foam sandwiched on the outside by kevlar and on the inside by fibre glass. She has two reinforced bulkheads, each with a large watertight hatch giving access into the fore and aft cabins. She has a number of watertight compartments along each side of the deck to store food. All the electronics, navigation and communication equipment, water maker and 12v batteries are in the rear cabin along with the water maker and batteries. The batteries are charged with a series of solar panels on the two cabin tops. She is equipped as any high-tech ocean going vessel, with GPS and magnetic navigation, AIS (safety system), satellite phone, satellite email, EPIRB, VHF radio and a yellow brick GPS tracker. She is packed as lightly as possible but with rower safety first and foremost. She weighs approximately 2500lbs when fully loaded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 That's pretty amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Something something stop the boats. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 I value myself as slightly above the event horizon of the pathetic. I can't help but think of ancient Polynesians making the journey. Although not in one giant voyage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Another episode in the long running series of people who are willing to do absolutely anything to get out of Californa Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted December 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Another episode in the long running series of people who are willing to do absolutely anything to get out of Australia Except he went the other way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tied Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Except he went the other way... same difference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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