Reid Stowe, who set sail from the Westside waterfront on April 21, 2007 with his companion, Soanya Ahmad, in his 70-ft. schooner Anne, was scheduled to make landfall on Thursday, June 17 at Pier 81 at 42nd Street after more than 1,000 days at sea.
A flotilla of more that 20 boats is expected to accompany Stowe, who will have spent a record 1,152 days at sea without re-supply or touching land, as he sails into New York Harbor and up the Hudson, according to his friend John Doswell, a member of Friends of Hudson River Park and Community Board 4.
Stowe and the flotilla are scheduled to pass Robert Wagner Park and Battery Park City around noon and land at Pier 81 around 1 p.m. Ahmad, who had to be transferred to land off Australia after 306 days at sea because she became pregnant during the first third of the voyage, will be on Pier 81 to greet him with their now 2-year-old son.
Stowe, who survived a collision with a freighter 15 days out, began the voyage with a three years food supply, solar panels, large tarpaulins to catch rainwater, a laptop computer, a satellite telephone and a tracking unit. His goal was “to take exploration on the sea further than anyone has before.”
Albert Amateau
