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From the High Arctic to the Southern Ocean, with human power Rowing Exploits on wild open waters will be 2021 for the books. A handful of rowing trips will be launched in the coming months, ready to celebrate new seasons at Annals of Sports. Notably, two attempts to cross the Pacific will embark from the United States mainland to Hawaii, as well as bidding through the Drake Pass and across the Northwest Passage. Meanwhile, other stamina rowers continue to lunge on new extended courses closer to home, day in and day out, including one manTwisted 7,500 miles of North America and an unprecedented effort for several years One woman For rowing 30,000 miles around the entire North American continent.
Trans-Pacific Pavilion Project by Chris Birtich
Senior surfer and motivational speaker Chris Bertish follows the 2017 Standing Paddleboard Crossing the Atlantic Ocean By attempting to make a maiden flight across the Pacific Ocean with wing chips. It reads right: Trans-Pacific Water Transfer. Bertech plans to set off from Half Moon Bay, California, in June, for an estimated 3,000-mile wind-powered voyage to Hawaii. Bertech upgraded a super-sized “Flying Fish” that he paddled across the Atlantic with watercraft for TransPac Pavilion Project. Bertech plans to follow the prevailing winds and currents in the North Pacific, covering between 40 and 80 miles per day.
Cyril Deryomox Fault at a legendary crossing
American born in France Cyril Deryomox You will get a head start at Bertish, and depart in May for two Crossing the Pacific kayak sea solo From California to Hawaii. Derreumaux, who set a Guinness World Record for speed rowing on the same track as part of a four-man team in 2016, will attempt rowing work done only by Ed Gillette (Sea kayak) 1987 and Antonio de la Rosa (SUP craft) in 2019. He will paddle on a specially designed solar-covered marine kayak that’s more elegant and seaworthy than the tandem ready-to-go Gillet tried three decades ago. Derreumaux expects to spend 70 days on the water.
Freya keeps paddling on
Impose a global epidemic Freya Hofmeister To take a year off from trying Paddle around the North American continent. Instead, she spent 2020 kayaking in Norway and Sweden. But the German super-rower, who has already sailed around Australia and South America, got off to an early start this year, tracking the Sea of Cortez and much of Mexico’s Pacific coast. Pending COVID regulations, Hofmeister It could cross the 600-day mark from a 30,000-mile expedition that you expect will take up to a decade to complete.
Neil Moore’s Final Law
In february, We caught With long-distance canoe driver Neil Moore, who spent the year of the epidemic Adrift on the rivers of America. After descending the Mississippi River, Moore heads north, connecting the waterways with Lake Erie. This year he will aim to complete the third and final “work” of a 7,500-mile solo residence at the Statue of Liberty across the Hudson River.
Arctic Cowboys: The Northwest Passage
Three Texans are waiting for COVID to finalize their plans for an epic sea kayak cruise through the Northwest Passage. West Hansen (who led National Geographic with sponsorship An expedition on the Amazon River In 2012), Jeff Wueste and Jimmy Harvey, also known as Arctic Cowboys, will attempt their first documented solo season Kayak crossing from the Arctic archipelago in Canada, With no land crossings – departing from Pond Inlet on Baffin Island or Tuktoyaktuk at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, depending on COVID regulations. Either way, the voyage will span nearly 1,900 miles with the goal of documenting how climate change reduces the coverage of polar ice and opens up the passage of a mythical northern sea route. Along the way, the team will travel in the frigid waters that gave birth to kayaking, explore waters not paddled in the modern era, and perform crossings in open waters up to 60 miles in length.
De La Rosa’s next big ocean saga
Spanish adventure athlete Antonio de la Rosa planned Aspiring Triathlon For the Australian summer, travel by paddleboard, sail, and land in Antarctica. De La Rosa will stretch 600 miles from Patagonia to the Antarctic Peninsula, via a fearsome Drake Passage. Then the last Eco-Challenge Fiji The contestant will adjust it Ocean Council custom building To sail, travel 1,200 miles to South Georgia Island – simulating the Ernest Shackleton itinerary. De la Rosa would then follow Shackleton’s footsteps across mountains and glaciers, ending at a remote outpost on the east coast of South Georgia.
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