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Joe Barello Checks in with the US Navy! “Classic Good News” 04/25/07

Austin Tang — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:29:13 +0000

Joe Barello updates us on the status of Reid and Soanya’s 1000 day at sea voyage!

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1000 Days at Sea Update from Reid Stowe! “Classic Good News” 04/25/07

Austin Tang — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:00:21 +0000

1000 Days at Sea Voyage Update from Reid Stowe!

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1000 Days Press Conference – Part 3 “Classic Good News” 04/25/07

Austin Tang — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:29:24 +0000

1000 Days at Sea Press Conference – Part 3

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1000 Days at Sea Press Conference – Part 2 “Classic Good News” 04/25/07

Austin Tang — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:29:13 +0000

1000 Days at Sea Voyage Press Conference – Part2

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1000 Day Voyage – Part 1 “Classic Good News” 04/25/07

Austin Tang — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:36:30 +0000

1000 Days at Sea – Press Conference Part 1

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Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad – 1000 Days at Sea “Classic Good News” 04/23/07

Austin Tang — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:44:34 +0000

Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad on Good News before departing on their voyage – 1000 Days at Sea!

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Reid, Soanya and Darshen…

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:43:47 +0000

Our little family and the trusty schooner have returned home. The schooner rests peacefully on her river of birth, the Cape Fear River. Soanya, Darshen and I are in the family home in Greensboro.

We had a great voyage home. Besides our stopover in St. Thomas VI, we never lowered a sail the whole voyage. The winds blew out of the NE all the way to the mouth of the Cape Fear River.

We had some tech savvy delivery crew with us in the VI and when they opened their computers to Passage Weather, the weather maps showed four days of contrary winds and squalls. They decided they didn’t have time to deal with that. So they jumped ship and caught the next plane home. That left us with only Jennifer, who had never been to sea before.

Despite the contrary weather forecast, we were eager to get to sea and deal with whatever nature sent our way. It was late November and the hurricane season was over. We motored twenty miles offshore, turned off our motor and drifted on a beautiful blue sea and enjoyed the view. Black rain squalls arrived from all directions and we milked them for a few miles at a time. During the night when all was pitch black we decided to heave-to and let the wind blow. When the wind picked up, we took off for North Carolina averaging 150 to 180 miles a day. During a momentary calm Soanya saw a big fish swimming by our underwater window and called out to me. I grabbed my fishing line and with my ever present partner, Darshen, by my side, I quickly pulled two Mahi Mahi aboard. Darshen squealed in joy and fear and ran back to the cockpit where he energetically did his happy dance, jumping in place and waving his arms.

A stiff wind picked up again and we continued on our 330 degrees course back to North Carolina. We were heading home to leave the schooner indefinitely to help Dad adjust to his new life without his wife, Anne, of 60 years. Her framed picture in the pilot house gave me solace and courage and I knew I was doing the right thing in her eyes.

The wind died completely as we approached the mouth of the Cape Fear River. A heavy blanket of fog blocked our entrance, but as we motored forward it lifted and let us under. It was a great surprise to be met by my Uncle Bill and Cousin Bo as they drove up in a speedboat. We anchored across the river from Southport and they ferried my Dad and sisters out for a visit and Jennifer to the airport.

We still had twenty miles to sail up the river to Wilmington, so at dawn the next day we caught the tide up. We landed on the dock December the fifth. That was the day I was aiming for, my mother’s birthday. It was also the day my brother Bobby and I arrived home on the last voyage of the catamaran Tantra 38 years ago. I don’t know how these things happen, but they make the milestones in life memorable and magical.

Dad climbed aboard the schooner Anne and we all enjoyed a warm December sun. “Look Dad, the stainless steel fittings you made 35 years ago are still strong. They are almost the only thing on the schooner that has not broken.” Dad smiled and looked around. Soanya busily cleared the galley and packed food to take to Greensboro. Darshen ran back and forth from bow to stern and Dad said, “No running”. I said, “Dad, the halyards and lifelines run along the edge of the boat and Darshen knows he is not supposed to go near the edge of the deck or even touch the lifelines. I can’t stop him from expressing his playful energy.” We watched Darshen running and bouncing like a frog. “We are home Dad. We are here to be with you”.

Ed. Note: More pics and blogs from Guyana coming soon as well as how Reid and family adjust to a “normal” life!

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The Water Hour Presents 1000 Days at Sea Voyage Special Broadcast

editor — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:19:25 +0000

Reid and Soanya call in from the sea and report on their latest problem with being hit by a major freighter and what they plan to do. Then many of the team helping the voyage come to the studio and share how they have been involved with Reid over many years. Great entertainment and video is shown and you will hear from a group of caring friends as they tell us the in‚ and out‚ of their experience with Reid. This program is a 2 and a half hour broadcast and we are breaking into two parts. Next week on April 18th we will show Part Two.. Some of the people featured in the show are: Wave, Salvador Rosillo, Andy Mannik, Todd Colburn, fantastic videos by Kristana Textor and Mike Dougan, Tom Cushwa, Joel Bluestein , Bruce Rosencrantz , Fred Sullivan , Sterling Barrett Rand Weeks, Co-Producer of the Show Joe Barello and Donna Stein. Joe Barello Co-Producer Donna Stein Co-Producer  Musicians Todd Colburn Joel Bluestein Wave Stowe  Video Contributers Kristana Textor Michael Dougan  Photographic Contributers Soanya Ahmad Bonnie Aldinger Michael Dougan many others  Website 1000Days.net Fred Sullivan Michael Dougan Joe Barello

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Third Annual Water Not Weapons

editor — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:03:30 +0000

World Water Rescue Foundation is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to protecting and preserving the world’s water resources and ensuring the fundamental right of access to safe drinking Water for All People.

Water is essential to every aspect of life. We cannot live without it. There is no technology available that can manufacture it. It cannot be replaced or duplicated. It must be valued and safeguarded.

World Water Rescue Foundation exists to restore, in an environmentally sound manner and in harmony with the needs of the world, the integrity of the element of water, which is in significant danger.

As an international imperative, we seek to successfully sustain the earths water.

Our mandate demands that we pursue every possible way to preserve and protect the water supply of this planet.

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We named the Schooner ANNE after my mother

editor — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:00:00 +0000

Today is her birthday. We wish her well and many things more. She is probably getting a lot of well wishes, first from our dad, Harry, then from her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Mom is the matriarch of a great big family including a brother and sisters and all their children and grandchildren. Everybody gathers together at the family beach cottage, built by her father and mother, on the waterway in North Carolina. It was there that we learned our boating and boat building skills. I built both of my boats at the family beach cottage. Mom, being the oldest and loving her responsibilities, is in charge. We all love her and where would we be without her.
The schooner is so lucky to have a namesake like her. It could have been named Harry, but I always saw the boat as a she. Hey Dad do we still have those mitts and balls? I can’t wait to come home and play catch! Being isolated for so long in such a far away place brings out a lot of deep feelings. I feel pulled to the edge of human existence, but I still have longings to come back home and have it never change. Except we get a little older. Happy Birthday Mom! Yesterday, our first day in the Southern Ocean, the wind died down and by darkness the sea was glassy, but rolly all around us. I finally lost control of the schooner because of the lack of wind and she turned around and faced west. I was a little peeved at first and got a little cranky trying to get her turned around and going.
I gave up in a huff and heaved-to for the night. It didn’t really matter. We weren’t racing or in a hurry. I guess it came as a surprise because were expecting so much wind. By morning a light breeze picked up from the north and we got going again. Soanya says each time I say I think I’ve got the boat in good order, something happens that gives me more work. When I see things coming together, I can’t help myself. I want to re-confirm it. I think I’m ahead of the curve now. I’ve been saying it a lot. I think the schooner ANNE is a good boat. The Captain and Crew Born into a family of longtime boat builders and inspired by his father’s Air Force career, Reid has been challenging the seas with lengthy voyages since age 19, when he first sailed from Hawaii to New Zealand in 1971. It was during this time that he met and was influenced by France’s Bernard Moitessier1, the first man to sail nonstop around the world.
[Ed. 1. Robert Knox-Johnston is the record holder for the first nonstop single handed circumnavigation. Moitessier who also did a circumnavigation in the same race did not return to England but continued around again. Thanks, Richard.] A feature written about the Explorers Club of New York by Conde Nast Traveler describes Reid as being the “genuine article, with an old-fashioned spirit of adventure” and “a man with that rare combination of unbridled passion and impetuosity.” Nicholas Sullivan, president of the Explorer’s Club, adds that “By virtue of his Voyage of 1000 Days, Reid will be one of the greatest explorers ever.”
Returning from New Zealand, Reid built a 1400-pound catamaran and ventured for three years across the Atlantic Ocean and back, then up the Amazon River-all without benefit of radio, electronics, or motor. In 1976, brimming with knowledge and confidence, Reid began preparing for a challenging six-month voyage to the Antarctic. With the help of family and friends, he designed and built, in a year and a half, what he terms “the ultimate long distance, heavy weather sailboat,” a 70-foot and 60-ton gaff-rigged schooner that he named Anne, in honor of his mother.
For six months in 1986, Reid and a crew sailed her to Antarctica, “where few boats venture due to the extremely dangerous conditions.” Photo Journal of the Building the Anne Soanya Ahmad was born in Queens, New York. The eldest of three children, she was raised by parents who emigrated from Guyana. She attended The City College of New York as part of the first class of Cuny Honors College students. There she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in photography. After having photographed many black and white harborscapes of cities on the east coast, she became interested in learning more about the waterfront, prompting her to pursue a second degree in Maritime Technology at Kingsborough Community College.
Soanya came into contact with the 1000 Days Non-stop at Sea expedition at the beginning of her third year in college as she was photographing the piers of Manhattan. Having worked various office jobs through college, as she was graduating, she realized the well defined city grid and square cubicle was not for her.
She preferred instead to follow her own expansive spirit in a less limiting environment and the sea was the perfect place to start. Three years after her first encounter with the project, she decided to become a part of it and accompany the noble and charming captain of the expedition, Reid Stowe, on his greatest and most challenging voyage yet. After being onboard the Schooner Anne for a year now, Soanya has come to play an integral role with all facets of the expedition including, photographing, videotaping, organizing, and inventorying as well as operating all of the computers and communications equipment

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