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.
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Also on Travel Grit: Hugo Vihlen crossed the Atlantic in the smallest boat ever to make the crossing. Hear his story.
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At 62, Hugo Vihlen sailed across the Atlantic in Father’s Day—a boat just 5 feet 4 inches long. He hand-steered through a hurricane, ate quarter rations, and lost a kidney somewhere between Newfoundland and England. His record still stands 30+ years later.
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Listen to Hugo’ Vihlen’s extraordinary story here on the Travel Grit podcast.
Reza Baluchi has been stopped by the Coast Guard four times trying to run across the ocean in a hydropod—now he’s launching from Taiwan where they can’t reach him.
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Read about Reza’s upcoming hydropod journey. Listen on Spotify.
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