Ep. 257: A 50-Day Solo Row Across the Atlantic - Gavan Hennigan
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Past guest Gavan Hennigan is back on the show! This time we get to hear about Gavan's solo row across the southern Atlantic. What do the stars and the milky way look like at night from the middle of the ocean? How does one cope with 50 days of solitude sitting in a 16 ft rowing for days on end? Gavan discusses overcoming his issues with addiction and how he turned drug addiction into an adventure passion. As if this wasn't enough adventure, Gavan even lets us in on his summer plan to row back across the northern Atlantic from New York City back to his home port in Galway Ireland. Listen in for another dose of inspiration!
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| 0:00.0 | Some nights, you know, going through the moon cycles out there, there was obviously no moon at times. |
| 0:05.0 | And when it was a clear night, the Milky Way was just absolutely jumping out of the sky. |
| 0:10.0 | You know, there was no, obviously no light pollution. |
| 0:12.0 | You know, I could see these, you know, huge bands of stars. |
| 0:16.0 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:28.3 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:32.1 | Episode 257. |
| 0:34.2 | Gavin Hennigan is back to tell us about his 3,000 nautical mile row across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| 1:23.3 | Hi, welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Travis. |
| 1:29.5 | All right, you guys know this guy. He is Gavin Hennigan, and we've had Gavin on the show back in episode 159. He was here to tell us all about his Lake Baikal track. It was a frozen lake |
| 1:36.6 | by call, and he did 440 miles across that lake, solo and unsupported. So he was on our show |
| 1:43.9 | to talk about that. If you want to hear |
| 1:45.7 | that one, go back to episode 159. It's from April of 2016. But since then, Gavin has been up to a few |
| 1:54.5 | cool things. And I wanted to have him back on to talk about that. And will dig into it later but that was his solo |
| 2:03.2 | Atlantic row from the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa to Antigua in the Caribbean so |
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