You crawl in and it is about six feet long. Don’t think like a sailboat cabin, think like a coffin. There are three rowing seats on the deck of the boat. This boat is 30 feet long and about six feet at its widest. That’s why I picked Duncan, Angus and Jordan and, of course, it paid The Layout of the Boat You get halfway through and, yeah, they were big and strong in the first week, but now they’re not big and strong and it’s a mental game. We’re always tempted to just go after the biggest, strongest athletes. Over the years, I’ve learned there’s a difference between the best guys and the right guys. We’re already big and strong, and we’re capable of doing this physically, but if you get halfway across that ocean and you don’t like the guys that you’re on a 30-foot boat with, you’re going to have some serious problems. It was really about aligning ourselves emotionally and mentally. We had a rushed two weeks in May leading up to the row, where we finally got together. I was just by myself in San Francisco getting buddies of mine to help me train here. Those guys were able to get together a number of times and get in the boat and row together. But, because my three teammates are British and I was in the States, we didn’t get a whole lot of time to train together.
We used that experience to help prepare ourselves in a different way than we did, individually, for our Atlantic crossings. Between myself and my teammates, we had seven ocean crossings combined. It was really about picking the right time, building the right team and training that team in the right way. Not many people row more than one ocean, so to be able to do both oceans and break world records in both was certainly enticing. Rowing’s certainly in my blood and in my DNA and in my history. The second time we broke the world record as the fastest team to row across the Atlantic. I’ve rowed across the Atlantic Ocean twice. I rowed in college, and I rowed for an elite training team post-college in Philadelphia. Here, in his own words, is the adventure-and-endurance athlete explaining how he accomplished the feat. It was the 11th world record for Caldwell, who also has the Atlantic Ocean row record, and Latitude 35 on land and sea. The completely self-supported journey, which was done on a 30-foot boat that received no assistance or resupplies along the way, was completed non-stop as Caldwell and his team kept the vessel moving at all times by working in two-man, two-hour shifts. On June 29 in Hawaii, Jason Caldwell and the three other members of his four-man Latitude 35 racing team triumphantly rowed into Waikiki Harbor, completing a journey across the Pacific Ocean of more than 2,400 nautical miles that started about a month earlier in San Francisco.Ĭaldwell and teammates Duncan Roy, Angus Collings and Jordan Shuttleworth had rowed from the shores of San Francisco across the rough ocean waters to Waikiki in 30 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes, breaking the previous record of 39 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes set in 2016 for the fastest unaided, unassisted row across the Pacific Ocean.
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