Very relieved today to finally have the boat in Baltimore where it will be shipped directly to Dakar – a huge milestone on this journey. Over three months of food and provisi
ons for every worst case scenario all packed in a nineteen foot boat.
The boat was rolled into a forty foot container on the trailer where it was braced and blocked to prevent it from rolling around on its way across the Atlantic. Next week it will be delivered to the Port of Baltimore and then on a freighter directly to Dakar, Senegal in West Africa, where I begin my row in three weeks.
The company handling my shipping often ships boats, cars, furniture, and metals. A few other containers in their lot were full of imported goods including one container full of garlic, another with Nike shoes, and lastly, one with Victoria Secret bras. My boat is somewhere in that peculiar mix!
It feels good to know that my boat is in the hands of such a great team with support from ContainerPort Group, Grimaldi Group, and World Shipping.
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Katie,
We are in negotiations with the Airbus folks to search for the Air France flight that went down in the middle of the south Atlantic (they need to recover the “black boxes” to determine the cause of the accident), so we could be near your transit path in January/February . . . of course it is a BIG ocean, as you are about to discover. It is interesting that we might be in the same neighborhood, though.
I’m certain that this will be a great adventure and you’ve chosen a wonderful cause. I look forward to tacking your progress (and reading your book about the trip!). Best wishes from me and the rest of the BRAA class of ’06. You are an amazing young woman.
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