Baja, Mexico – During the shooting of The Kayak Fishing Show with Jim Sammons TV series, Howard McKim of Ketchikan Alaska hooked up with a monstrous blue marlin and got towed 11 miles out to sea over a 5-hour period
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The end is in sight! And by the time you read this Captain Ketch, aka James Ketchell, onboard Speedo (or maybe not quite so Speedo this time!) Should be getting his land legs back in Antigua. Even as I write, he’ll be able to see the dark smudge of land, getting ever bigger on the horizon behind him, with fluffy white clouds marking the spot in the sky above.
James has made a monumental effort this week to gain enough ground to the north to be in with a chance of crossing the finish line – which stretches south for one nautical mile from Cape Shirley. It’s still touch and go whether he will … Details
Nearly 1,000 years after the last of the great Polynesian migration journeys across the Pacific, a group of descendants set sail in a fleet of replica canoes on Sunday to relive the voyages.Â
Four double-hulled canoes with crews of up to 16 people each departed from Auckland to sail 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) to the French Polynesian island of Raiatea.Â
Raiatea is believed to have been the departure point for the last great Polynesian migrations to New Zealand, Hawaii and Easter Island around 700 to 1,000 years ago … Details
And then there were two! As the last two boats in the Atlantic Ocean rowing race inch along their somewhat wiggly paths west to Antigua, the weather and conditions still aren’t letting up or helping their progress in any way.  Â
Last weekend, Team Boogie Woogie completed their crossing in 96 days, 20 hours and 15 minutes, arriving at English Harbour in daylight to a warm welcome. The Danish pair of Ole Elmer and Brian Heron were actually on a cycling trip a few years ago when they first heard about ocean rowing, after a chance meeting with Tori Holmes and George Simpson, also cycling, who both rowed the Atlantic in 2005. It must seem like a million years since that first conversation, and amazing to see that the idea and dream did turn into reality  … Details & Pictures