Rowing for 43 days sounds insane. Can’t walk around. No real change of scenery. Sleeping alone in the pitch darkness of the ocean. And what if the crazy waves come? This is bit mind blowing to me
Go watch her instagram she discusses all these issues and she actually rowed more at night due to sun exposure. She documented everyday and it is very informative!!
She might have to. One time I went on an ocean bird watching excursion and forgot to put sunscreen on my ankles and they were “expresso” for almost two years. I’m usually about latte.
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Someone has probably already AI-generated an hour-long video that regurgitates the articles that humans wrote in a voiceover of a slideshow of pictures from the same articles.
Honestly her videos are amazing. If there's ever a documentary, I'll watch it, but I won't enjoy it nearly as much as her videos. She's just a really fantastic person and there's something amazing about watching the clips she made in the journey itself.
She was not allowed to accept any outside support whatsoever or it would disqualify her record attempt. She had to leave California with everything she would need, food included. No support boats, no nothing. Just her.
Edit: Kreegs is correct, I should have mentioned she had weather reports and support with navigation over her radio, but no direct support. Just her and her boat.
It's not really self reliant. It's mental illness. I'm shocked she has a partner. I would never date someone that would do something so dangerous and reckless. The whole point of dating someone is marriage. Is this person really going to stop if they have kids?
Bruh. I won't deny that this was a physically impressive feat. But it's objectively not smart to row across the Pacific ocean. What if there's a swell. It's pitch black at night. It's also objectively stupid to hitch your wagon to someone who does stupid things....
It's not about I wouldn't fuck her. This is an objectively stupid thing to do. It's also simultaneously bad ass that she made it. The likelihood of her making it is low. Two things can be true at the same time dumb dumb.
Sure, bro. Everyone is Brad Pitt on the internet. I am sure the beautiful gurls are beating each other up and climbing over your wall to be your wife. It sure must be nice to be you!
That’s kinda an issue. There are no witnesses who can say that everything was conducted legit.
If all that was provided to prove the time was just gps data and an occasional video to check in and report on the trip, then how can this record be accepted as legitimate?
It would seem that there needs to be a support vehicle monitoring the boat and if she was on the boat or if there was assistance. With no boat following how do people know if the boat was towed or pulled or pushed or whatever…aided in some way. I dunno, these weird “look at me” endurance contests, in my opinion should be scrutinized closely because there is such incentive to be dishonest and there are not many rules or any rules for that matter that relate to endurance rows from Ca to HI.
The issue with this is that having a following boat changes the nature of the task and would invalidate. If the rower knows there's a safety if something goes wrong, it fundamentally changes the risk invovlved. Another thing is that part of the challenge is being along for that length of time. Having a chase boat also doesn't solve the issue of fraud, because there's nothing stopping the chase boat from lying.
There are many ways that they verify whether or not she had help. For one, her boat would have been inspected before leaving and upon arrival. If there was any assistance that would have left evidence on the boat, that would have been noted. If she were pulled for any length of time, she would have to explain why her GPS tracking (which was done in real time and you could track it on a third party website) would have been suspicious. She likely also had satelite tracking to verify her location at all times. They can also compare the route she took to the real weather and current patterns that were observed in the same place at the same time. Also, if she were assisted by another boat, that would show in her communication logs, as she would need to radio them to maintain contact. Communications can also be followed by anybody monitoring AIS equipped vessels, which her boat certainly was.
Is it still possible that cheating happened? Sure. But it is VERY unlikely. Other long distance sports don't have somebody following them the entire time to verify, though. Marathon runners aren't followed by someone to make sure they're legit for the entire 42km. Solo mountain climbers aren't monitored 24/7. Instead, we look at all of the evidence and cross reference it to verify what happened.
No resupply as others have said, but she also mentioned she ran out of coffee before the end! That would demoralize me 😅 I think she had caffeine pills though
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The question of “what if the crazy waves come?” Is just that the boat is designed to right itself if it gets turned over. If the seas get too high, she goes into the cabin. If it turns upside down, it turns itself right back up. She is tied to the boat in case she’s outside the cabin during the storm.
I read an article that said something along the lines of the little inside area where she sleeps has to be locked airtight and that way it’s almost like a balloon where if a wave flips the boat, it will automatically turn upright
I don’t know if it was her or someone else (a fair number of people do this) but I was following social media posts by someone doing one of these ocean rows and if I recall, there’s two “rooms” / compartments, one on each end, and I think they use one for sleeping and the other for storage (clothes, food, etc.)
They have desalination systems for drinking water, internet, etc. it’s all pretty neat.
But yeah, the boat is self-righting so if there’s a bad storm, you go inside your sleeping room & ride it out. Probably not very fun to be tossed around like that, I’d imagine.
Maybe like those snorkel devices where if you go under water a little floaty device is pulled up blocking the airway. And once you resurface it falls back down to allow air in.
She said she has a bit of recovery to do since the muscle groups she used are very different than those used for walking. This ain’t her first row tho. Super impressive feat and she’s so positive about even the hard stuff.
I watched a story about this woman that does long distance swimming. I don't mean like swimming for miles, I mean like hundreds of miles non stop. She told a story about what it is like being out in a sea with no visuals, cloudy so no stars, just darkness. Then sometimes the algae will begin to glow as your arms go through the water and it spreads out from you. You're swimming in pitch black other than this glowing light blue ripple around you.
It sounds like nirvana. It would be hard to imagine something more beautiful.
You mean sheer nirvana... You know, the kind you get from just floating in darkness, without any visual points of reference, without any sense of place, without anyone around to help. Just you helplessly plodding along, unable to tell how far you've gone or how much farther you've yet to go, in an environment hostile to your species, with no company but the voices in your head and the innumerable soulless creatures hunting below.
You're swimming in pitch black other than this glowing light blue ripple around you. It sounds like nirvana. It would be hard to imagine something more beautiful.
Maybe I'm too soft but that sounds scary af lol. The ocean in the pitch black of night?? Absolutely not.
I grew up in a town by the sea, and I cried every time my parents took me to the beach. Even to this day, the endlessness of any ocean reminds me of the phobia I once had.
It has been years since I watched the video. I tried to search but all I could find was world record holders, the first person to make different achievements, etc. All I can remember is it was a woman and she was swimming from one of the Hawaii islands to another
My brother did this row a couple years ago... all the women teams beat the guys I think. I may have met this woman at the row launch. Anyhow, I am very proud of him because he raised around $40million for Parkinson's in the process!
Finnish firefighter has been doing these things for a while now. You get hit by wave? You just flip it back. You sleep when you can't row and when the conditions are ideal you row.
Dropped like 20kg weight when rowing from Europe to America, eating dry food and peanuts mainly.
Being out in the open ocean alone day and night for 43 days is nightmare fuel. Cudos to her. She's a strong tough woman! Physically and mentally! Bravo
She would tie everything down during storms so if capsized she wouldn't lose gear.
Absolutely mind blowing feat of mental toughness. I followed her on Instagram during the crossing. She would row for hours, take a two hour nap. Row some more. For 43 days. She was upset with herself when she slept through an alarm for 6 hours because her body needed a break.
This is actually what gets me when faced with doing anything arduous like this. What of the boredom? That's also what I fear most about prison, by a lot.
A neighbor I’m friendly with casually mentioned that his best friend rowed solo across the Atlantic.
I was like pfffttt, bullshit, and then looked into it and found out it’s actually not that rare & a fair number of people do it, many documenting it on social media as they go. I feel down an internet wormhole of social media accounts. It’s pretty interesting to see it and learn all the details. They do tours of the boat, explain how it all works, what they eat, their drinking water systems, satellite phones, etc.
There’s also 2 person boats so you can do it with a friend if being solo for so long isn’t your thing.
It’s kinda wild that there’s this subculture of folks who row across oceans.
A guy just rowed from Indonesia to the Seychelles, 900 days and documented the whole thing. Not to diminish the achievement of the subject of this post at all as time wasn’t a factor in the longer row.
I hadn't heard about this either, apparently he's still working on it, he's about 100 days in and seems like he's basically finished? Aaron Carotta if you want to look him up.
Oh man, there's one video where she's out rowing in the dark and it is unsettling. Mad props to her, even if I could physically do it, I think I'd go insane before I ever made it to shore.
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One has to be already insane in many ways to take up on a challenge like that. Not the kind of people I am friends with, or would they have any interest in that. Only Respect!
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u/HorselessHorseman Jul 09 '26
Rowing for 43 days sounds insane. Can’t walk around. No real change of scenery. Sleeping alone in the pitch darkness of the ocean. And what if the crazy waves come? This is bit mind blowing to me