Transatlantic Paddle Crossing
On June 13th, 2003, Maud Fontenoy started an eastward paddle crossing of the Atlantic from Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. She reached A Coruña in Spain on October 10th. She became the first woman to accomplish this.
Aleksander Doba is the first recorded individual to complete a non-stop transatlantic kayak crossing. He left Dakar, Senegal on October 26, 2010, and arrived in Brazil 99 days later.
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“We approached the Indian Island through the narrow strait called “Cook.” He said, “I ‘xpect we take in some water there, river so high,—never see it so high at this season. Very rough water there, but short; swamp steamboat once. Don’t paddle till I tell you, then you paddle right along.” It was a very short rapid. When we were in the midst of it he shouted “paddle,” and we shot through without taking in a drop.”
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