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It is billed as the toughest expedition-style small boat race in the world. The Ultimate Florida Challenge is an all-out circumnavigation of Florida open to canoes, sailboats, and sea kayaks. Twelve hundred miles of adrenaline and dread.
In March 2006, ten challengers pushed off a beach at Tampa Bay and began a round-the-clock struggle to make it back to the same beach without first becoming nourishment for some large, toothy creature. To beat the thirty-day deadline, they must paddle or sail, day and night, through storms and blazing sun.
Among the ten mariners is Warren Richey, a 50-year-old divorced dad who takes up the challenge in a sea kayak. He doesn't know if he can make it all the way around, or even halfway to Lostman's River.
Then, out there alone on the water, something strange starts to happen. This is my story. Call me Sharkchow. The book is WITHOUT A PADDLE.
For more information regarding the Ultimate Florida Challenge (1,200 miles plus a 40 mile portage), the Everglades Challenge (300 miles), the Ultra Marathon (75 miles) and other fantastic endurance races, please visit the source of it all Water Tribe
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