JASON GREEN PHOTO Tom Cronin, left, and Toby Green, bound for Florida, and the record book
According to Guinness World Records the longest recorded Jet Ski journey is 10,729 miles, accomplished by South Africans Adriaan Marais and Marinus du Plessis, who followed the west coast of North America south to the Panama Canal in 2006.
They spent an average of 10 hours a day at sea, averaging about 40 mph, enduring choppy, chilly seas, dehydration, mechanical breakdowns and makeshift lodgings, including at Fort Bragg’s harbor where a dock-leaping sea lion startled them awake at 2 a.m.
This Sunday, June 30, two Shelter Islanders plan to smash that record by finishing a longer journey than anyone, ever. (more…)
