Ellen Falterman, who sometimes goes by Ellen Magellan, began her journey around the world the other day. If successful, she will become the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a rowboat.
Ellen Falterman, who sometimes goes by Ellen Magellan, began rowing around the world the other day. She launched near her childhood home, underneath the Moss Hill Bridge in East Texas, on the Trinity River, which spills—slowly, this time of year—into an arm of Galveston Bay. She plans to follow the Gulf shoreline to Key West, at which point she will have to consult the authorities about the legality of a crossing to Havana.
Falterman is twenty-seven, and already something of an eminence in adventure-seeking circles. She has busked near the Amazon, hitchhiked around Scotland, and ridden a tandem bike from England to Greece. She got her pilot’s license before graduating from high school. In 2017, she kayaked the full length of the Missouri River, becoming, at twenty-two, the youngest person ever known to do so alone.
An oceangoing rowboat is nothing like a scull or a canoe. It’s capable of self-righting in the event of a capsize, for one thing, and looks like a space shuttle’s life raft, with fore and aft cabins, for sleeping and for storing desalination equipment, and even two USB ports. Falterman bought hers “gently used,” as she puts it, from a company in England. Its previous owners, after a few hundred miles, apparently thought better of their attempt to cross the Atlantic.
Falterman’s father, a former Air Force pilot, approached her as she talked. “Go away,” she said, then quickly reconsidered, shouting, “Love you!” She admitted that as the launch neared she had grown “numb” from so many competing emotions. She had timed it to coincide with the anniversary of her brother Patrick’s death in a flying accident, in 2016. Patrick was her mentor in the art of vagabonding. “He hitchhiked for six years in South America,” she said.
She went on, “My mom said, ‘Why can’t you just row across one ocean? Why do you have to row across all of them?’ I’m, like, ‘Mom, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.’ ” She has done the math—if she succeeds, and is also fortunate enough to achieve an average life span, this mission will have encompassed slightly less than ten per cent of her time on earth. No rush. “There may be times when I want to go off hiking on this mountain in Tahiti for three weeks,” she said.
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