{"id":5721,"date":"2008-09-12T04:12:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:23","slug":"hitech-ocean-row-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/hitech-ocean-row-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Tech Ocean Row Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI didn&#8217;t know anything about fancy trans-ocean row boats. Apparently a lot of people row across oceans. There is even an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanrowers.com\/aor\/\">Association of Ocean Rowers<\/a>. The typical ocean row boat has two humps, with sealable hatches, so the whole thing is a floating bubble. They are crammed with navigational gear, as well as the usual marine necessities: cooking, sleeping, working tools. They also are loaded with batteries, solar panels, wind generators, and so on. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanrowers.com\/aor\/forum\/phpBB2\/viewforum.php?f=5&amp;sid=7389be05962f21b3db8a365fd8b0f55a\">Used ones<\/a> go for about $50,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/roz%20boat.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Roz Boat\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRoz Savage (pictured above) rowed one of these hi-tech row boats across the Atlantic and is now rowing across the Pacific &#8212; San Francisco to Australia &#8212; solo.&#160; Her floating shack is stuffed with expensive gear.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I will be taking about $80,000 of electronic equipment with me on the Brocade, so that I can send back video blogs, podcasts, data, photos and text blogs to my website.&#8221;&#160; The complete list of her electronic gear is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rozsavage.com\/adventure\/?sec=27&amp;pg=94\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith all this sea-hardened equipment she is blogging and podcasting from a row boat in the middle of the Pacific, which is pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know anything about fancy trans-ocean row boats. Apparently a lot of people row across oceans. There is even an Association of Ocean Rowers. The typical ocean row boat has two humps, with sealable hatches, so the whole thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/hitech-ocean-row-boats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}