Kite Boarding Across The Pacific

About a year ago, I read an article on ESPN about some 26-year-old dude named Jason Lewis from the U.K. who decided it would be a great idea to sail around the world on sailboat he made himself.  He and his first mate estimated the trip would take only a few months to complete.  Well after having both his legs broken, an attack from a hungry crocodile, his blood getting poisoned which nearly killed him, serving jail time for suspected espionage, and 46,505 miles later, this young man who was no longer young complete his trip around the world.  Jason was 40 years old when he completed his mission.  Yup!  Nearly it took him nearly 14 years to go around the world in his dinky sail boat.  If that isn’t extreme I don’t know what is.

Well this woman from France just might be.  Anne Quemere, 42, is planning to take a solo trip across the Pacific Ocean on; you guessed it, a Kite Board.  Now the only difference with Anne and 26-year-old Jason Lewis, is that Anne actually know what she’s doing.  She had already complete the amazing feat of crossing the Atlantic.  What more in the nice warm, sunny, shark and possibly pirate infested waters of the Pacific.  I just hope that her arms are conditioned to take on such a challenge or she might end up like this guy.  Read more about her amazing stunt below and maybe you will be inspired to do something so meaningful with your life.  Like do the Running Man all the way to Alaska. 

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — A French adventurer will set sail from San Francisco on Thursday in a bid to become the first person to kite surf across the Pacific Ocean.
Anne Quemere, 42, the only woman to have rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions without assistance, will use Pacific winds to propel her in a 5.5-meter (18 feet) craft some 7,000 kilometers (4,350 miles) to French Polynesia. The voyage is expected to take around three months.

Quemere, who successfully completed a similar kite surf voyage cross the Atlantic in 2006, told AFP she had originally planned to leave on Friday but weather conditions forced her to bring forward her departure date by 24 hours.

“I’m leaving Thursday, departing from the wharf at around 11am (1800 GMT),” she told AFP.

“We had planned for Friday but the weather is going to be more favorable on Thursday so we wanted to take advantage of that window,” she said.

In 2002, Quemere set a new record after traversing the South Atlantic in 56 days in a rowing boat. Two years later she took 87 days to row across the North Atlantic.