No Records Set

From a 1000 Days at Sea press release dated Feb. 22, 2008:

Reid Stowe has broken or plans to set the following records:

- Longest man and woman sea voyage
- Longest consecutive time at sea for a woman
- Longest time out of sight of land
- Longest non-stop American sea voyage.
- Longest space analogous experiment on the ocean

* Longest man and woman sea voyage &
* Longest consecutive time at sea for a woman -

Miles and Beryl Smeeton logged over 100,000 miles at sea
Steve and Linda Dashew over 200,000 miles
Robert and Nancy Griffeth over 170,000 miles
Noel & Litara Barrott 80,000 miles
Anthony and Coryn Gooch 115,000 miles

There are other examples where couples have been at sea for long durations including wives of whaling captains who accompanied their husbands on voyages that would last for years. A single example of this is Captain John Reynolds and his wife Hattie were at sea together for over 10 years. It is also important to note that contemporary women sailors have successfully completed solo circumnavigations.


* Longest time out of sight of land

Jon Sanders holds this record at 657days. When dropping off Soanya, they were about a half mile from shore. A spokesperson for their own shore team admits they were in sight of land.

* Longest non-stop American sea voyage.

Again, there have certainly been American whaling vessels that have been at sea longer, but that is irrelevant as the boat is registered in Anguilla. It appears as the home port on the stern of the Anne. This is confirmed in the Coast Guard Report from when Reid hit the freighter. The official incident report claims Anguilla as the port of registry. Reid himself reconfirmed Anguilla as the home port when he entered Australian waters to drop off Soanya. He flew the Anguillan courtesy ensign from his back stay.

* Longest space analogous experiment on the ocean -

Jon Sanders could call his 657 days at sea "space analogous". There is no difference between what Jon Sanders has done and what Reid is attempting and there is nothing about this cruise that is experimental. Simply calling something "space analogous" doesn't make it different. If anyone can point out the unique aspects of this cruise that make it "space analogous" or different from Jon Sanders voyage, please drop a comment and let us know.

Other records Reid has claimed in the past to promote himself and the 1000 Days voyage:

Reid said, in an interview with Harold Channing

"I sailed the smallest boat across the Atlantic Ocean"

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There were at least 20 boats that made the Atlantic crossing before Reid did in 1973 that were smaller. One was half the size of Stowe's and another even crossed the Atlantic twice (link)

Regarding his Antarctica Expedition, in this same interview Mr. Stowe says of that trip

"It’s really dangerous, that’s why no one had done it."

. In fact, over 70 private boats had made the trip before the Anne did in 1986

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