10 comments

  • CharlesW 38 minutes ago
    It's kind of buried here, but Kelsey is the fastest human to do this. She beat the male record holder's time by 6 days.
  • vmg12 43 minutes ago
    I used to row and even the tiniest of waves could make it annoying. You'd slide to the front of your seat and try to insert your oar and catch air instead of water. Then if you overcompensated by trying to insert your oar farther in you'd catch a crab (having the oar ripped out of your control). This is on a lake with tiny waves.

    Rowing across an entire ocean is absolutely amazing.

  • mobilemidget 16 minutes ago
    All i think about when people row, kayak or swim these distances in these waters is 'SHARKS'. Which i read and saw enough about that the chances of meeting one isnt that big, but my brain still associates these activities/areas with it.
    • echoangle 10 minutes ago
      I thought sharks only attack stuff that looks like wounded animals. Would a shark really attack a boat?
  • a-uz 32 minutes ago
    Kārlis Bardelis has rowed the Pacific, India and South Atlantic Oceans and cycled everything in-between. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/11/record-bre...
  • ProjectArcturis 16 minutes ago
    I wonder what was going on in her life that made her say, "I want to spend the next 43 days rowing alone across the ocean."
    • lkjdsklf 11 minutes ago
      This isn’t the first time she’s done it.

      She spent 41 days making the same trip with 2 other people

    • fuzzfactor 5 minutes ago
      I admire the ambition which likely preceded the trip over a long enough term to make the conclusive 43-day journey end up as the smaller amount of calendar time.

      But that which obviously means the most from the standpoint of fulfillment :)

  • yieldcrv 57 minutes ago
    Why do these extreme rowing and sailing boats look so weird

    Its always a form factor I’ve never seen before

    Where can I learn more about this scene?

  • ChrisArchitect 30 minutes ago
  • justinhj 1 hour ago
    There's a good book "The Pacific Alone" about a guy that did this in a kayak
  • drsalt 1 hour ago
    great how the article doesn't explain any of the interesting aspects of this