great how the article doesn't explain any of the interesting aspects of this

There's a good book "The Pacific Alone" about a guy that did this in a kayak

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?

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.

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.

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...

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790512

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.

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."