Thies Matzen and his wife Kicki Ericson have sailed 150,000 miles aboard Wanderer III — their 30-foot wooden sloop — much of it through the Southern Ocean. They overwintered at South Georgia Island for two years and sailed to Antarctica on the smallest traditionally planked wooden boat to ever make that voyage.
Sven Yrvind was beaten by his teachers, locked up for desertion and learned the value of books from a psychopath. Then he built a boat in his mother’s basement and sailed into legend.
Sea G Rhydr is planning a covered wagon journey across America with a team of Welsh ponies and her corgi, Thick. This is the transcript of a conversation we had recently.
The body of the covered wagon that Sea G Rhydr plans to take on her journey through America
Reza Baluchi is the inventor of the hydropod, a floating human powered vehicle. He is currently trying to travel 22,000 miles from Taiwan to Florida in his latest hydropod. This transcript is taken from his interview on the Travel Grit podcast.
