{"id":386269,"date":"2026-07-04T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/386269\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:19:07","slug":"solo-female-rower-completes-historic-trek-from-california-to-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/386269\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo female rower completes historic trek from California to Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU \u2014 One woman has completed her goal to become the first American woman and the youngest woman to row from California to Hawaii solo on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Pfendler docked in the Ala Wai Harbor on Friday night, July 3, 2026, after her more than 2,400-mile trek from Monterey, California to Oahu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>To complete her journey, she rowed a total of 43 days, 17 hours and 55 minutes across the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>After docking in the Ala Wai, Pfendler was greeted on land with cheers from the excited crowd and several flower leis.<\/p>\n<p>See more of her journey on her Instagram @yourowkelsey and on her online journey tracker.<\/p>\n<p>The current world record, 86 days, 10 hours and 5 minutes, is held by Lia Ditton. Before Pfendler, only two women have ever completed a solo row to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>\n                                    The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU \u2014 One woman has completed her goal to become the first American woman and the youngest woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,6996,6995,6813,1286,972,100,4201,1726,6997,127,4509,821,2422,4591,19],"class_list":["post-386269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-recreation","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-travel","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}