{"id":29831,"date":"2018-01-31T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29831"},"modified":"2018-01-31T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:50:33","slug":"new-jersey-teen-becomes-youngest-ever-to-row-across-atlantic-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/01\/new-jersey-teen-becomes-youngest-ever-to-row-across-atlantic-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Teen Becomes Youngest Ever to Row Across Atlantic Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It takes a certain adventurousness and determination to row a boat across the Atlantic Ocean. And probably just a little bit of\u00a0 craziness, too. Yet, the challenge is one that has appealed to dozens of men and women over the years, ever since John Ridgeway and Chay Blythe rowed a Downeast dory from Maine to Ireland in the 1960s. The most recent record-breaking crossing is notable for the youth of the oarsman and for the quickness of the trip. Read R. Daren Price&#8217;s wrap up of the adventure first published on NBC Philadelphia&#8217;s website.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 14, 2017, Oliver Crane started rowing. He didn\u2019t stop until he put an entire ocean behind him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;3,000 miles and you start with a single stroke,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Princeton, New Jersey, 19-year-old on Sunday became the youngest person ever to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, topping a 2010 effort by then 22-year-old adventurer Katie Spotz. And his 44-day voyage from the Canary Islands off of Northwestern Africa to the Caribbean isle of Antigua didn\u2019t just earn a record: It has helped Crane raise more than $60,000 for Oceana and a homelessness charity in New Jersey. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/Princeton-New-Jersey-Teen-Youngest-to-Cross-Atlantic-Oliver-Crane-471709944.html\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a certain adventurousness and determination to row a boat across the Atlantic Ocean. And probably just a little bit of\u00a0 craziness, too. Yet, the challenge is one that has appealed to dozens of men and women over the years, ever since John Ridgeway and Chay Blythe rowed a Downeast dory from Maine to Ireland in the 1960s. The most recent record-breaking crossing is notable for the youth of the oarsman and for the quickness of the trip. Read R. Daren Price&#8217;s wrap up of the adventure first published on NBC Philadelphia&#8217;s website. &nbsp; On Dec. 14, 2017, Oliver Crane started rowing. He didn\u2019t stop until he put an entire ocean behind him. &#8220;3,000 miles and you start with a single stroke,&#8221; he said. The Princeton, New Jersey, 19-year-old on Sunday became the youngest person ever to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, topping a 2010 effort by then 22-year-old adventurer Katie Spotz. And his 44-day voyage from the Canary Islands off of Northwestern Africa to the Caribbean isle of Antigua didn\u2019t just earn a record: It has helped Crane raise more than $60,000 for Oceana and a homelessness charity in New Jersey. Read more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29840,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831\/revisions\/29840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}