# 70-Year-Old Kayaker Crosses Atlantic, Keeps Going

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/70-year-old-kayaker-crosses-atlantic-keeps-going/46021>\
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/70-year-old-kayaker-crosses-atlantic-keeps-going/46021 "2017-09-06T22:34:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![27182](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/27182/32/21380_2.png) [@27182](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/27182)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/70-year-old-kayaker-crosses-atlantic-keeps-going/46021/1 "2017-09-06T22:34:50Z")

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Wonder where he’s at now.

> **[70-Year-Old Kayaker Crosses Atlantic, Keeps Going](https://www.canoekayak.com/news/70-year-old-kayaker-crosses-ocean-keeps-going/)**
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> Over 101 days and 4,000 nautical miles, Aleksander Doba finished his third solo Atlantic crossing, with a dangerous final 100 miles on the English Channel.

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**Author:** ![Ctony](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ctony/32/189_2.png) [@Ctony](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Ctony)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/70-year-old-kayaker-crosses-atlantic-keeps-going/46021/2 "2017-09-07T00:09:14Z")

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> [@27182](#):
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> Wonder where he’s at now.

It would suck after all he has been thru to be found plastered on someone’s bulbous bow…what a feat so far!

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**Author:** ![27182](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/27182/32/21380_2.png) [@27182](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/27182)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/70-year-old-kayaker-crosses-atlantic-keeps-going/46021/3 "2017-09-07T00:29:49Z")

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I think the guy could probably arm wrestle a medium sized cargo ship into submission.

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/b/bd1424f82c2a9c7d331aac8ad9a3fbdd3ce98d94.jpg)

And I kind of wish someone would buy him one of these:

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**Author:** ![Lee\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Lee\_Shore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Lee_Shore)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/70-year-old-kayaker-crosses-atlantic-keeps-going/46021/4 "2017-09-07T14:23:44Z")

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> [@Ctony](#):
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> It would suck after all he has been thru to be found plastered on someone’s bulbous bow…what a feat so far!

He’s not the first and he’s not alone. A few hundred have done it before him. Lia Ditton is a 37 year old female who has rowed across the Atlantic. She is currently in San Francisco waiting for a weather window to row across the Pacific.Latitude 38 interviewed her in this month’s issue.