{"id":619537,"date":"2010-01-04T04:34:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T09:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/woman-aims-to-solo-row-across-the-atlantic-ocean\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T04:34:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T09:34:02","slug":"woman-aims-to-solo-row-across-the-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/619537","title":{"rendered":"Woman aims to solo row across the Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/04\/katie-spotz_1_g69HF_69.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"katie spotz_1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Katie Spotz to solo row across the Atlantic Ocean to raise $30,000 for Blue Planet Run. <\/p>\n<p>Katie Spotz is planning to solo row across the Atlantic Ocean, a distance of about 2500 miles, which she hopes to cruise in about 100 days. Spotz has just shoved off from Senegal in her one-woman rowboat and will not see another human being for her entire three months at sea.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/04\/katie-spotz_2_4XbCG_69.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"katie spotz_2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If Spotz succeeds, she will become the youngest person and the first American to cross an ocean in a rowboat. During her trip she seeks to raise about $30,000 for Blue Planet Run, a group that partners with endurance athletes to fund and implement clean water projects around the world. <\/p>\n<p>The rowboat is not having even the smallest of sails, which means the Spotz will have to row without even a trap to block the sun. However, her boat does carry a solar panel to provide power to a water desalination machine, a GPS unit, radios, a satellite phone and a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/guest_bloggers\/17\/woman-rows-alone-across-the-atlantic.html;_ylt=AggDSoVaVWEmJ5CdsXTCwC2AV8cX\">Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Katie Spotz to solo row across the Atlantic Ocean to raise $30,000 for Blue Planet Run. Katie Spotz is planning to solo row across the Atlantic Ocean, a distance of about 2500 miles, which she hopes to cruise in about 100 days. Spotz has just shoved off from Senegal in her one-woman rowboat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Bax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}