Hello from Hawaii!!!

Incase you haven't heard, we crossed the Pacific!!!

We wanted to give a huge thank you to everyone who supported us through our crossing and also to everyone who donated. 

One of our sponsors, Super Salve, Co. has graciously wanted to give you all 15% off when you order their products with code: hericane15 because you have donated to this amazing cause for Planned Parenthood!

We got into Hanalei Bay around 5:00 am, welcomed by friends and family. We were overwhelmed by the feeling of being finished and the love that was shown to us.

Thank you for believing in us, thank you for supporting our cause, thank you for making us strong.

Our official time for this trek was 40 days, 22 hours and 14 min. It was 40 days full of wildlife, cold waves, flying fish, pop-up cargo ships, night time sing-alongs, and taking on challenge after challenge. We faced obstacles as a team and walked onto the beach closer friends than we were at the beginning.

We couldn't have done it without your support. You will hear this time and time again, but thank you and we appreciate every single person who has supported this endeavor.

There is still more work to be done, but for now we are making our way back home, prepping Brizo for her shipping container and just soaking up the feeling of rowing across the Pacific. 

FIVE DAYS TILL LAUNCH! 

Over the past couple of days we have smashed our last inspection, packed our food into our boat, and await for it to be slipped at the harbor until our launch date. 

Our hearts are ready for this adventure and we cannot wait for it to begin. 

Thank you to everyone who have donated and supported us throughout this journey to the start line. It's finally here!!! 

We couldn't have made it this far without all of you and we are honored to be supported by each and every one of you. 

Follow us on Instagram or Facebook   @hericanerowing as we will be posting multiple updates for everyone along our journey. 

If you want to track us you can download the YB Races app, look up "Worlds Toughest Row - Pacific 2024" and it will update our location every 4 hours. 

Again thank you for helping us get here! 

More updates soon! 

Hi Everyone! 

We have been fastly approching the start line and have been very busy down in the Monterey area training and fixing up the boat for our lauch date.

We have been able to take her out on the water for a couple practice rows and successfully completed a 24 hour Row. 

We also renamed her as she is on a new journey with us and her first crossing of the Pacific. We as a team agreed to name her Brizo. 

Brizo is an Ancient Greek Sea Goddess who is known as the protector of mariners, sailors and fisherman. She is also known to interpret dreams and was often worshipped by the women in Delos who would pay homage to her by placing food in their small boats as an offering to the goddess for protection on their voyages. 

We paid homage to Brizo by offering her our favorite snacks and making sure that Poseidon accepted Brizo as our new boat name by christening her properly with a renaming boat ceremony. 

We appricate everyones support and welcoming nature from the communities that we have reached out too. We couldn't have made it this far without everyones support. From the bottom of our hearts, we cannot thank you enough. 

Much love from Brizo and the Hericane Family. We will see you out on the water! 

Hello Everyone!

We all hope you had a fun holiday season and as we ramp up at the start of the year, here are a couple of updates!

Last year was a busy one for the team as we were getting ourselves prepared for this race and now we are here just 5 months away from the start of our race!

We are still hard at work in the background with fundraising, training, certifications, and prep work for our boat, Rose’s, arrival, which is scheduled for February 4th! Once that happens you will see us hit the ground sprinting to the start line! We had two of our teammates do a fundraiser in Flagstaff, Arizona (per the picture they woke up to the view of the Grand Canyon) and we have another one upcoming in Bend, Oregon. 

We have our final Sea Survival training happening in the beginning of February, and then we will be ready to begin our full on-the-water training. Most of our team is relocating to Monterey, California these upcoming weeks so we are able to train in the beautiful Monterey Bay.

It has been a year and a half of hard work, planning and preparing to get to this point, and we wouldn’t have made it this far without all of your support. We are still doing fundraiser events to gather the small pieces to make this puzzle complete. 

In just a few short weeks we will be together as a team and out on the water getting to know our boat and putting our navigation, marine radio, and safety training to work. We will be posting more and more updates as we are more than excited to bring you along for the journey of a lifetime!