Crazy things people have crossed oceans in....

[rubberduck]

Hi all,

I'm trying to generate a list of all the crazy things people have crossed oceans in. Surprisingly google is not a big help and I feel like i'm missing some stuff.

Here is the list i have so far:

Stand up paddle Board

The Two brothers who floated cars across

Wind surfer

French dude who crossed in a barrel a few years ago

The american guy who tried to run across, twice (although i'm not sure ill included this)

If anyone else has ideas and some sources to back them up it would be very interesting.

[double u]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin - rtw in amphibious jeep

[SeanPatrick]

A 5'11" sailboat.

Originally Posted by Mariners' Museum

Would You Cross the Atlantic Ocean in this Boat?
That’s exactly what Hugo Vihlen did when he sailed from Casablanca to Florida in 1968, aboard this 6-foot sailboat. On his third attempt Vihlen sailed 4, 480 miles in 85 days, and established the record for the smallest yacht to cross the Atlantic Ocean — a feat that stood for 25 years (1968 – 1993). If you look into the cockpit, notice the seat belt. Can you imagine being belted into this boat during an Atlantic storm?

[thomm225]

20' Beach Cat which beat all the cruising monohulls in the Atlantic Rally that year including a Volvo 70.

They made it in 11 days 11 hours.

https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic...ic-in-12-days/

[thomm225]

17" Klepper Folding Kayak.

Doctor Hannes Lindemann

https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/hannes-lindemann/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Lindemann

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/469007748673704768/

[PaulCrawhorn]

Custim built canal narrowboat

https://www.grannybuttons.com/granny...news_i_fr.html

[jordanbigel]

The Happy II - 9ft with a displacement of 2,160lbs, this boat is on display at the Brisbane Maritime Museum.

https://maritimemuseum.com.au/learn/...sels/happy-ii/

[ArmyDaveNY]

Ant Steward circumnavigated in a 20 foot open boat! The video below is some 25 or so minutes long and describes the modifications to his boat to make it doable. Oh yeah, he also lost his charts some five or six days into the journey and continued with just a compass and a one page map!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QkZN35RZfU&t=26s

[foufou]

How about Serge Testa who went around the world in a 12' "yacht"! I met him when he had built a 60' yacht. Finally got a dose of reality.

[foufou]

And of course Web Chiles who circumnavigated in an open 17' Drascombe Lugger. And more recently in a Moore 24 in his late 70's.

[JC Reefer]

The crazy guy that sailed to china in a walker bay dingy.

And someone else already mentioned the amphibious jeep. Worth noting that he started off by crossing the Atlantic diagonally from the NE USA to the coast of Africa. Vessels name was half-safe. Kind of a joke.

[Fore and Aft]

Alain Bombard was another unique mariner who stands out in my mind. To deliberately set out across the Atlantic with no provisions is crazy.
Cheers
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/opinion/alain-bombard-80-dies-sailed-the-atlantic-alone.html

[ron finnen]

I dont know if this qualifies but I have heard of a man that tried to swim the Atlantic ,He entered the swimming pool on the Queen Mary in New York and did laps nonstop until he was pulled from the pool not far from Ireland

[Yojimbo]

Her adventures haven't crossed oceans yet that I know of but Freya Hoffmeister has completed some remarkable feats of seamanship imho including circumnavigating both Australia and South America in a kayak. Just finished reading "Fearless" an account of her Australian accomplishment and remember an excerpt from an article in some magazine describing her passage around Cape Horn in her South American circumnavigation that sounded as daunting as it gets.

[PaulCrawhorn]

Jean-Jacques Savin dies crossing the Atlantic

75-year-old French adventurer was trying to row across the Atlantic Ocean


https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...ic-260198.html

He had previously made the crossing in a large barrel in 2019.