This is the ocean rowboat JAMES ROBERT HANSSEN, it had a funeral, it looked like this:

KING 5 Evening Magazine: Epic Funeral for a Rowboat

She’s rowed the North Atlantic and won a race, and got a Guinness Record. Later she rowed from Africa to North America… but was capsized just east of the Bermuda Triangle and later discovered. She’s spent the last ten years at a museum, the museum didn’t have room for her anymore so she was responsibly destroyed on Monday, June 5 as part of the Department of Natural Resources Vessel Turn-in Program.

Her last voyage is to bring beer to the ‘Ruckus’ The party between the Seventy48 and Race to Alaska. #Ruckusbeerrun. @Jordanhanssen on Instagram.

Want to find out more?

• Listen to this short podcast: A Bittersweet Boat Funeral.

• Read about her in the Seattle Times: Seattle rower plans one last voyage — and a funeral — for beloved boat

• Who are the people on the boat and why are they there: In Memoriam

• Watch the boat recovered at Sea: Ocean Rowboat Rescued by Tugboat and Crew

• Read the book about her first Journey: Rowing into the Son, by Jordan Hanssen.

• Watch the boats Circumnavigation around Vancouver Island: Salish Oars

• Read the Trip Report for her second cross Atlantic Voyage: Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Africa to the Americas Expedition

• Watch the Dateline Episode about her: ‘Capsized.”

• Hear the shanty about the rowboat, written by crewmate, Adam Kreek and performed by the Victoria Symphony. Lyrics below:

  • All Hail to the James Robert Hanssen (Chorus In bold)

    She rows from sea to sea to sea to sea!

    All Hail to the James Robert Hanssen

    It's a rower’s life, yes, a rower’s life for me

    I could be doing dishes in the kitchen

    I could be passing laws in parliament!

    I could simply do me lovely wife’s a wishin’’s

    But I think I haul these oars for a stint

    Chorus.

    Now Jordan is our tall and bearded captain

    His written words the critics do applaud!

    Although the women seem to find him handsome

    They also seem to find him rather odd
    Chorus

    My mother has an awful bad suspicion

    She prefers the wholesome girls who are ashore!

    It's not our woody blisterous repetition

    It's that we spend our time at sea with oars
    Chorus

• Inspired by the story of the boat, its crew OAR Northwest and its tiny dinosaur mascot, Rex the rower and want a momento? Check it out: HERE