Katie Spotz

Katie Spotz
Katie Spotz : Georgetown, Guyana – and 22 years), the American swimmer has completed a solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, touching the pavement in coffee brown water of Guyana to claim a record as the youngest person to achieve this feat.

Katie Spotz, who spent more than two months alone at sea, and embraced her father and her brother to 200 people cheered on their arrival to this South American capital.

“The hardest part is just part of the single,” Spotz said, saying it was struggling with boredom and had trouble sleeping inside the narrow, 19 feet (6 meters) row boat.

Athletes from mentor, Ohio, set out from Dakar, Senegal, on Jan. 3, and endured rough seas during the 2,817 miles (4533 km) crossing. Traveled without any support aside from a boat to the Coast Guard vessel escorts Guyana coast.

Rowed it to raise funds and increase awareness of the Blue Planet Run Foundation, a non-profit organization which aims to bring safe drinking water to the people of an estimated 1 billion in all throughout the world who lack it.

“The records are just a reward for Katie. Rowing the Atlantic Ocean, and the collection of funds for clean water are the things that really cares,” said coach Sam Williams.

Record for the youngest swimmer to cross the ocean alone group Oliver Hicks, a British man was 23 when rowed from New Jersey to England in 2005, according to Kenneth Crutchlow, the London-based executive director of the Ocean Rowing Society. He said his group would not be the ratification of the Spotz trip, but apparently broke the record.

Spotz rowed for up to 10 hours a day with breaks for a nap, navigation and boat maintenance. At night, she was floating on a specially designed ocean row boat, which was the equipment, including solar panels for energy, and a satellite phone and laptop computer.

Have very little fresh food aside sprouts grown on board the boat.