{"id":388985,"date":"2026-07-07T08:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388985\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:33:32","slug":"adirondack-grad-rows-solo-from-california-to-hawaii-and-breaks-2-records-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388985\/","title":{"rendered":"Adirondack Grad Rows Solo From California to Hawaii and Breaks 2 Records | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Adirondack Grad Rows Solo From California to Hawaii and Breaks 2 Records\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4b9912075d5.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>OAHU, HI &#8212; An Adirondack High School graduate has made history with a record-breaking solo journey across the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Pfendler completed her trip from Monterey, California to Oahu, Hawaii late Friday night, becoming the first American woman to finish the trek alone.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with our NBC affiliate KNHL in Honolulu, Pfendler said, \u201cCurrently as it stands, I am over 525 miles ahead of the current men\u2019s record. And I\u2019m over 1000 miles ahead of the women\u2019s record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She broke the previous women\u2019s record of 86 days, 10 hours, and five minutes and also surpassed the men\u2019s record of 52 days.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds gathered to track Pfendler\u2019s progress as she was spotted off Diamond Head, rowing the final miles to shore.<\/p>\n<p>She reached the harbor to hundreds of cheering supporters, including many women who witnessed the achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Pfendler said, \u201cI did not expect this to happen at all. When I first started planning this row, I wanted to go for the women\u2019s world record. But I had no idea how long this was going to take me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She finished the journey in 43 days, setting a new world record.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>An Adirondack High School graduate has made history with a record-breaking solo journey across the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAHU, HI &#8212; An Adirondack High School graduate has made history with a record-breaking solo journey across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,972,974,100,136],"class_list":["post-388985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-local","tag-national","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388985","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=388985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}