Ep. 217: 76 Days Adrift at Sea in a Life Raft - Steve Callahan
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2016
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
An avid sailor, Naval Architect and author, Steve Callahan designed and built his 21' sloop the Napolean 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 NY Times Best Selling book: "Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea" to dig deeper into his amazing story!
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| 0:00.0 | but a few days later, the Dorado broke the spear and put a big hole in the bottom of the raft, |
| 0:05.6 | and then I was liking for a 10-day, really heavy-duty drama that really beat me up really badly. |
| 0:18.5 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:26.1 | Episode 217, 76 days adrift in a life raft with Steve Callahan. |
| 0:42.9 | Welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | This is Travis. |
| 0:47.0 | On the line with me today is Steve Callahan. |
| 0:54.0 | If you guys haven't heard of Steve Callahan, this guy is an experienced sailor, a naval architect. |
| 0:55.9 | He's done a ton in sailing. |
| 1:06.9 | And back when he was a young man, he had decided to set out on a trip out to over to England and then down south to join a race. |
| 1:14.7 | And Steve found himself off the coast of Africa floating adrift and he wrote a book about it and I want to talk to him today about that and let him tell you his story about those 76 days |
| 1:21.5 | and a life raft on the on the Atlantic Ocean so first of all Steve welcome to the show thanks |
| 1:26.9 | thanks for having me yeah good to have you. |
| 1:29.0 | So let's back up a little bit. I kind of alluded to what we're going to be talking about, but |
| 1:33.2 | I also mentioned you being a naval architect and having quite a bit of a sailing experience. So |
| 1:40.1 | can you do me a favor and go back into your background a little bit and just kind of give us a taste of how you got started in sailing and fell in love with it? |
| 1:49.2 | Yeah, I, well, I started when I was, I don't know, 11 or 12 or something like that. |
| 1:54.5 | My Boy Scout Master actually kind of taught me how to sail. |
| 1:57.3 | He was kind of a sailing mentor, and I ended up sailing with him for years and years. Just from really small boats, basically. I had a lot of interest that I've |
| 2:08.8 | always had a lot of interest in small boats, and like Napoleon Solo, this little boat |
| 2:12.8 | that I built across the Atlantic with a small boat. I was inspired by people like Robert Manry, |
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