It took nearly five months, but intrepid Polish kayaker Aleksander Doba, who set out from Lisbon on October 5 last year, finally crossed the ocean, arriving in Bermuda – without a rudder – last week.
The voyage is the longest kayak trip in history – 43 days longer than Doba’s first transatlantic crossing from Senegal in Africa to Brazil in 2011. And it’s not over yet. The 68-year-old’s goal is New Smyrna beach in Florida. He is now just hoping to repair the rudder he lost in the Bermuda Triangle and hitch a lift to the point in the ocean where he got blown off course.
Luckily, he doesn’t appear to be paddling to any kind of deadline.
Photo: Doba departing from Lisbon on October 5, 2013. He arrived in Bermuda 142 days later. Photo: Ricardo Bravo, Canoe&Kaya/Canoandes
