AMERICAN ROWER KELSEY PFENDLER MAKES HISTORIC RECORD BREAKING SOLO ROW : 2400 MILES FROM CALIFORNIA TO HAWAII

It wasn't easy to choose which video or article I would post for you all, but this is it!

 She slept on hour a day for a few days, then four hours a day... a storm hit her on day five in the middle of the night... She beat the men's and women's record:

CNN : AMERICAN SOLO ROW BREAKS RECORDS

Pfendler is a 32-year-old Grand Canyon river rafting guide. She launched her 21-foot boat, Lily, on May 21, 2026. Hundreds of people gathered at the Ala Wai Boat Harbor in Honolulu to greet her arrival.

She not only broke the previous women’s record of 86 days and also surpassed the previous men's record of 52 days.

Siren here!  I'm totally humbled!

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This is an exciting adventure of a film which I loved.  In 2017 a group of British women broke World Records by ROWING across the Pacific Ocean.  Yes - ROWING.  They took turns rowing, two at a time, for two hours each, around the clock, never taking a break. It wasn't just a physical achievement but a psychological one. There were four women and a couple waiting in the wings to take over. They rowed via a specially designed boat which put them in rather cramped conditions when they were not rowing, and no trailing support boats were allowed. They did get behind schedule, especially when they encountered the Doldrums. As a group effort they rowed 8000 miles in about 9 months, and had to land on a beach rather than the marina in Australia that was part of the plan.

The woman who had most made rowing her life before this trip was the one who in the end lost her love of the sport. The repetition was just too much, even though there were times when spotting whales, going through a storm, or seeing flying fish or dolphins made what could have been a totally tedious journey less so.  They rowed from San Francisco to Hawaii, then to Samoa, and then Cairns- Australia. Perhaps the last days when they ran out of food very close to their goal was the worst.

A motivation was the loss of a friend who died young of breast cancer.  The women also gained great confidence in their ability to achieve goals through perseverance and endurance.

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