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...

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.

• herodoturtle

  today at 5:48 PM

  Fellow rower here, affirming the above.

  Thought folks would be interested in her boat, built for ocean rowing:

  https://yourowkelsey.com/about/

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790512

That woman has solid brass huevos.

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?

• thephyber

  today at 5:33 PM

  It’s an ocean-going row boat with 2 cabins. Most row boats you’ve seen are probably hyper-light and designed for still water.

  The model of this boat:

  https://www.rannochadventure.com/boats-2/r25

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

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

• rsstack

  today at 5:21 PM

  Her rowboat is fascinating: https://yourowkelsey.com/ https://yourowkelsey.com/about/

  • drsalt

    today at 5:36 PM

    then write about it in the article

• oatmeal1

  today at 5:48 PM

  Yeah, it is cool, but this article is not HN appropriate.

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.