Comments on: Will Matt Rutherford be First to Circumnavigate the Americas Solo? http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/03/will-matt-rutherford-be-first-to-circumnavigate-the-americas-solo/ Just another blogs.smithsonianmag.com site Sun, 12 May 2013 14:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Marlowe Macintyre http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/03/will-matt-rutherford-be-first-to-circumnavigate-the-americas-solo/#comment-614 Marlowe Macintyre Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:02:21 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=1786#comment-614 Matt completed this voyage in April 2012. He was officially welcomed back to Annapolis, MD, by a group of dignitaries, family, friends and fans on April 23, 2012. To read how difficult the last few months of Matt's solo voyage really was, check out his story on www.solotheamericas.org. In addition, Matt raised over $100,000 for the handicapped boating group, CRAB. Matt completed this voyage in April 2012. He was officially welcomed back to Annapolis, MD, by a group of dignitaries, family, friends and fans on April 23, 2012. To read how difficult the last few months of Matt’s solo voyage really was, check out his story on http://www.solotheamericas.org. In addition, Matt raised over $100,000 for the handicapped boating group, CRAB.

]]> By: Gillian http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/03/will-matt-rutherford-be-first-to-circumnavigate-the-americas-solo/#comment-365 Gillian Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:59:54 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=1786#comment-365 Didn't the Rockefeller journey include stops at ports to educate people about environmental damage to the Ocean? Rutherford's distinction is alone, non-stop for the entire trip. That has never been done. Didn’t the Rockefeller journey include stops at ports to educate people about environmental damage to the Ocean? Rutherford’s distinction is alone, non-stop for the entire trip. That has never been done.

]]> By: Michael Bradbury http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/03/will-matt-rutherford-be-first-to-circumnavigate-the-americas-solo/#comment-363 Michael Bradbury Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:40:44 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=1786#comment-363 “Nobody, period, has done this before,” Rutherford told me by satellite telephone on March 8. “Not on a 100-foot boat with a crew of 50, not on an aircraft carrier.” Well, that's not exactly true. A small band of sailors/citizen scientists circumnavigated North and South America from west to east two years ago. Funded by David Rockefeller and the Tiffany Foundation with a few other partners, the crew made the 26,000-mile journey, roundtrip to Seattle -- the long way. Full coverage of that adventure is here. http://www.realscience.us/category/around-the-americas/ But this is still a pretty cool expedition. And every year more and more people are sailing both directions through the Canadian Arctic, now that the Northwest Passage has been melting annually since 2007. “Nobody, period, has done this before,” Rutherford told me by satellite telephone on March 8. “Not on a 100-foot boat with a crew of 50, not on an aircraft carrier.”

Well, that’s not exactly true. A small band of sailors/citizen scientists circumnavigated North and South America from west to east two years ago.

Funded by David Rockefeller and the Tiffany Foundation with a few other partners, the crew made the 26,000-mile journey, roundtrip to Seattle — the long way.

Full coverage of that adventure is here. http://www.realscience.us/category/around-the-americas/

But this is still a pretty cool expedition. And every year more and more people are sailing both directions through the Canadian Arctic, now that the Northwest Passage has been melting annually since 2007.

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