great how the article doesn't explain any of the interesting aspects of this
Yeah, it is cool, but this article is not HN appropriate.
Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
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#12I 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.
Fellow rower here, affirming the above.
Thought folks would be interested in her boat, built for ocean rowing:
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#13Kārlis Bardelis has rowed the Pacific, India and South Atlantic Oceans and cycled everything in-between. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/11/record-bre...
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#14Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790512
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#15All 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.
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#16I 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."
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#17I 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."
This isn’t the first time she’s done it.
She spent 41 days making the same trip with 2 other people
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#18All 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.
I thought sharks only attack stuff that looks like wounded animals. Would a shark really attack a boat?
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#19I 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."
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 :)
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#20kelsey still holds the record btw, but yeahh another runner up is insane