Solo Journey

Katie Spotz approaches the shore in Georgetown, Guyana, on Sunday at the end of her solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean .

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A 22-year-old American rower completed a solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, touching a pier in the coffee-brown waters of Guyana to claim a record as the youngest person to accomplish the feat.

Katie Spotz, who spent more than two months alone at sea, hugged her father and brother as 200 people cheered her arrival in this South American capital.

“The hardest part was just the solo part,” Spotz said, saying she struggled with boredom and had trouble sleeping inside the cramped, 19-foot rowboat.

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