Ep. 1001: 76 Days Adrift at Sea in a Life Raft - Revisited - Steve Callahan
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This story is so incredible it deserves another listen. All the way back in episode 217 Steve joined us to recount his adventure of survival.
An avid sailor, naval architect and New York Times best-selling author, Steve Callahan designed and built his 21' sloop the Napoleon Solo to sail it across the Atlantic Ocean from Newport, RI to England with plans to compete in a regatta. Once underway in the race, Steve experienced issues with the boat and was forced to drop out. Once repairs were made, he continued on his way only to be stopped in his tracks in the middle of the ocean when his sailboat was struck and began to sink.
Listen is as Steve recounts his 76 day journey across the Atlantic in his life raft with only his ditch kit and a small spear gun with him.
Be sure to click on the book link below to get his New York Times best-selling book: "Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea" to dig deeper into his amazing story!
The Book: Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea
Sea Website: http://www.stevencallahan.net/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | Today's a revisited episode. |
| 0:26.6 | It is episode 1001. |
| 0:29.4 | And I don't know what led me to pick this. |
| 0:32.2 | I guess we were talking about it. |
| 0:33.9 | I was talking about with a friend recently. |
| 0:36.5 | And I was like, you know what? |
| 0:37.7 | We haven't replayed that episode in a very long time, like four, five, six years, and that's |
| 0:43.2 | what it was. And this is episode 217. So we're going back almost 800 episodes with Steve Callahan. |
| 0:51.3 | And this is a well-known story. There's documentaries about this. There's a |
| 0:54.4 | very well-known book called Adrift, 76 Days Lost at Sea. And this is often called in one of |
| 1:05.5 | the greatest adventure books of all time. It was a New York Times bestseller for more than 36 weeks. |
| 1:13.1 | So we're going to hear this unbelievable story from Steve about being stuck on a life raft |
| 1:18.9 | after his boat sank. |
| 1:20.4 | And before we dive in, thank you so much to everybody that has helped us get to a thousand |
| 1:24.3 | episodes. |
| 1:24.8 | If you haven't, go back and listen to that episode with Alistair Humphreys and here's the first step in another thousand episode journey for our next |
| 1:34.2 | thousand episodes so thank you so much let's go ahead and dive in welcome back Welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:50.7 | This is Travis. |
| 1:51.9 | On the line with me today is Steve Callahan. |
| 1:55.2 | If you guys haven't heard of Steve Callahan, this guy is an experienced sailor, a naval architect. He's done a ton in sailing. |
| 2:04.1 | And back when he was a young man, he had decided to set out on a trip out to over to England |
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