Kiting from Russia to the USA, Across the Bearing Straits

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Well , lets just hope they don't push their luck too much and end up like
Baron Arnaud de Rosnay, lost at sea

http://www.people.com/people/archive...077554,00.html

sailing alone and unescorted on a narrow, 13-foot surfboard from the island of Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia to the atoll of Ahé near Tahiti. He covered some 750 nautical miles in 11 days and 10 nights at sea, more than four times the previous distance record for surf sailing

and ultimately,

http://www.windsurfing-legends.com/a...de-rosnay.html

Following are his intrepid windsurfing feats:

1979 Speed sailing down the Sahara coast from Nouadhibou to Dakar in 58 hours spread over 12 days.
1979 Across the Bering Straight in 8 hours.
1980 Sailed alone and unescorted from the island of Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia to the atoll of Ahé near Tahiti. He covered some 750 nautical miles in 11 days and 10 nights at sea.
1981 Failed English Channel crossing attempt. In a race with Ken Winner, de Rosnay had to be air lifted out. Having won the race by default, Ken followed suit.
1984 Key West to Cuba in 7 hours.
1984 Across the Sea of Okhotsk from Hokkaido to Sakhaline
1984 Attempted to cross the Straits of Formosa from China to Tiwaan

Baron Arnaud de Rosnay wrote an account of his transoceanic crossing, Tout m?est défi. (1981)

While preparing to cross the Straights of Formosa, the Chinese say they offered him a support boat, but legend decided to go it alone and snuck out a day in advance of his scheduled departure. The Straits were in a particularly savage mood that day, with very strong winds, huge swells and reports of big ocean rollers actually breaking in open water. The Baron simply disappeared without even the slightest