Posted on 05/25/2015 9:14:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sonya Baumstein is about to attempt something no other woman has ever done: She is going to try and cross the Pacific Ocean – non-stop, from Japan to San Francisco – in a row boat.
NBC Bay Area’s Mark Matthews spoke with Baumstein on Monday via Skype. Right now, she’s on Japan’s east coast, about to embark on her voyage, which she hopes will end with her rowing under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Baumstein is only 30, but she’s got some expeditions already logged. She rowed across the Atlantic. She kayaked from Seattle to Juneau.
“I’ve also paddle boarded the Bering Strait prior to doing this,” she said.
The highlight reel Baumstein put together to for Her pacific crossing shows off some of those earlier trip, but this one… this is four-to-six months alone on a 23-foot boat, with seven feet of deck space, crossing the world’s biggest ocean. “It all depends on how you want to use the moments that you have in your left,” Baumstein said, “and this is the moment in my life right now.”
Baumstein said she intends to spend her free time at sea collecting data on global warming. Her boat is a moving data collection float. “What happens is, every half hour, my boat collects eight data points on salinity, temperature and weather.”
All of that info will be beamed to a satellite and tracked by scientists at a place called Earth and Space Research. “And that’s all that I’m doing. I’m a community member that is helping to get data back.” Baumstein said she hopes to “contribute to the body of knowledge” so “we can help solve these major problems that we have on earth right now.”
There have been three crossings of the Pacific in a rowboat, but no woman has ever done it. To follow Baumstein’s progress, and see the data she’s collecting, go to expeditionpacific.com.
I was expecting to see someone in better shape.
I suspected she bulked up on fat purposely. She will need every damn calorie she can get to row the Pacific. If she makes it, she will not be fat when she rows under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Female bodies are different.
Has anyone ever crossed the Gobi Desert on pogo stick?
Has anyone ever swum the length of the amazon while juggling?
Someone needs to get onto these important feats as soon as possible.
I heard about a guy who tried and failed to rollerskate in a buffalo herd.
They are? (Australian female rowing champs)
When you are rowing across the Pacific, what free time do you have?
Aren’t they like sprinter type rowers for only a short distance, and aren’t they much younger females, and dressed differently, in tight revealing clothes?
I tried fishing with a 2X4, but my arms got tired, I failed and my family now shuns me.
I was going to sell the story to National Geographic, In Fisherman and Home Handyman.
Why? I thought global warming was settled science, needing no further proof.
Yep. Cause she's an idiot.
Cross country rowing is safer, but it takes even longer.
Who will be the first to cross on a stick pony?
Her data on global warming should be real useful :
Day one : “OMG it’s hot.” Row “OMG it’s so hot!” Row “OMG it’s so bright and hot!” Row, row, row, “Holy shiiite, it’s hotter than duckfeet on asphalt!” Row, row. “I wonder how hot it is?” Row. “Is it hotter than it was here last year?” Row, row “OMG, when is nightfall?” Row, row, “OMG it’s hot, hot, hot.” Row “IT’s as hot as the Devil’s dildo!” Row, row, “Al Gore, is that you? That da$% cloud looks like you after you put on some weight” row, row, row, “Must pee” row, row, row, “H##$, even my pee is hot!” Row, row, row, row, row, row, row, “For crying out loud give me some rain, just a little shower” row, row, row, “Oh, My Gore, gimme a breeze, please!” row, row, row, row, “Pleeeeeze, it’s so hot!” “Oh.. “ row, row, “Now that’s better, sun starting to dip.” Row, row, row...”Going down fast now,” row, row, “Ahhhh....” row “Oh, NOW you gimme rain.” Row, row, row, “OK, that’s enough now, I’m not hot any more!” Row, row, “Here comes some wind, ooooh, that’s really ch...ch...chill...chilllyyy.” Row, row, row, row, row, row, row, row, row, row, “OMG, it’s COLD! S-s-s-oo coold and dark!” Bump. Bump, bump, bump...”WTF was that?!” Rowrowrowrow, row, “gasp!” BUMP. Rowrowrowrowrowrowrow ...
Day Two
“Yawn. Not a wink of sleep last night. “ Row, row, row,...”Not a clound in the sky this morning, and it’s humid as one of Bill Clinton’s cigars ... “ Row, row, row, .... “OMG, it’s freaking hot!” ... “WTF was I thinking? Why didn’t I listen to Mom?” Row, row, ....
You shouldn’t wear loose clothing when rowing. Too much chafing.
damn you!
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