Record breaking 1,152 day voyage of Reid Stowe

After 1152 days at sea Reid Stowe, 58, arrived back at the docks in Manhattan. His 70 foot schooner “Anne” set sail on April 21, 2007 and started the voyage around the world from New Jersey. Initially Mr Stowe sailed with his girlfriend Soanya Ahmad, 26, which disembarked from the schooner off Rottnest Island, near Perth, Western Australia after suspecting she was pregnant.

The  family built 60 ton vessel was constructed on a North Carolina beach cottage of his maternal grandfather from Ferralite over steel wire mesh for the hull in eighteen month and finished in 1978. The design is close to the American gaff-rigged fishing schooners of the late nineteenth century.

The mission: 1000 Days at Sea: The Mars Ocean Odyssey

Stowe envisioned earlier that a long ocean voyage would be in some respects similar to extended space missions in example to Mars and had been outlined in the departure press release. Parts of the mission were: the study of weather, water, atmospheric pollution and ozone depletion in little-documented regions of the world. Unfortunately, due to lack of proper equipment it has not been fully realized.

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