• 62 yo Russian solo sailor crosses Pacific on rowboat covering 17,000km in just 162 days
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[url]http://rt.com/news/162728-konyukhov-finish-voyage-pacific/[/url] [thumb]http://rt.com/files/news/27/ba/80/00/23.jpg[/thumb] [IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bo8rPV0IAAA_ovw.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://rt.com/files/news/27/ba/80/00/11.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]World-famous Russian traveller and adventurer Fedor Konyukhov, who has been on a solo-rowing voyage across the Pacific Ocean since December, has reached the Australian coast, completing his adventure in a record 162 days.Konyukhov started his exploit from the Chilean port of Concon on December 22, 2013 and finished in the eastern Australian town of Mooloolaba, in the state of Queensland on May 31, 2014. The traveller wrote in his blog that he covered the distance of more than 17,408km (9,400 nautical miles) on the Turgoyak rowboat, crossing the ocean single-handed, without entering ports and without any external help or assistance. [I]“In the beginning it was hard, then it became harder,”[/I] Konyukhov told Itar-Tass. [I]“Every day I tried to sail 18 hours, I slept for 20-25 minutes and no more than 2.5 hours a day.”[/I] He said that the weather was favorable during his voyage. [I]“I escaped all major hurricanes. The rowboat never turned over…”[/I] he added.[/QUOTE]
He even looks like a badass. I wonder if that comes with the mindset.
I read his name as Fedora Konyukhov by mistake and thought it was something to do with a Russian Indiana Jones.
And here I was doing a couple of kms of rowing the other day and thinking "has anyone gone from Portugal to the US on a row boat?"
He's gotta be ripped like fuck now.
If he didn't enter any ports how did he replenish his fresh water supplies? Condensation or something?
looks like theirs a lot of room for supplies.
[quote]“Every day I tried to sail 18 hours, I slept for 20-25 minutes and no more than 2.5 hours a day.”[/quote] How the fuck do you function with 2.5 hours sleep every day for 162 days
[QUOTE=Spool;44961896]If he didn't enter any ports how did he replenish his fresh water supplies? Condensation or something?[/QUOTE] Typical capitalist pig dog pansy, too weak to survive on saltwater and piss
[QUOTE=Spool;44961896]If he didn't enter any ports how did he replenish his fresh water supplies? Condensation or something?[/QUOTE] He was probably resupplied by a team that either brought it in by air or regular boat that followed him.
[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;44961961]How the fuck do you function with 2.5 hours sleep every day for 162 days[/QUOTE] Alaskan crab fishers operate like that oddly enough. Has to do with faking the bodies remcycle or something.
[QUOTE=Binladen34;44962087]Alaskan crab fishers operate like that oddly enough. Has to do with faking the bodies remcycle or something.[/QUOTE] Because sailors typically live on their weird-ass four hour shifts, iirc their brains adjust to enter REM sleep sooner than normal. Maybe the same thing here
I have to say when I saw the title I thought some Russian just rowed across the pacific in an old wooden rowboat
That fucking [b]BEARD SWEET JESUS[/b] That must be where he draws all his power from.
He looks pretty good for sixty two years old.
[QUOTE=Spool;44961896]If he didn't enter any ports how did he replenish his fresh water supplies? Condensation or something?[/QUOTE] There's probably a built in filter and water tank. That solar panel ain't for looks.
[video=youtube;bYLKEePMvIU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYLKEePMvIU[/video]
He looks like the captain from Das Boot
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