Janice Jakait

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Janice Jakait (* 1977 in Lengefeld ) is a German extreme athlete, author and former IT consultant. She was the first German to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat alone and without an escort boat . Exactly 90 days after its start on November 23, 2011 in Portimão , Portugal , it reached its destination in Barbados on February 21, 2012 after about 6500 kilometers .

Row for silence

Janice Jakait rowed under the Row for silence project , working with the OceanCare organization. The aim of the campaign was to raise awareness of the issue of underwater noise , which has a dramatic impact on many marine life, especially marine mammals and fish . As announced in a radio broadcast on Hessischer Rundfunk in April 2012 , she is planning further projects: the crossing of the Pacific and Indian Oceans .

The Bifröst

Jakait's boat, the Bifröst (swaying heavenly road from Germanic mythology ), measures approx. Seven meters in length and two meters in width. It was constructed in 2007 from glass and carbon fiber composites. It has an empty weight of 275 kg. The takeoff weight when crossing the Atlantic was approx. 1080 kg, of which about 250 kg was food.

literature

  • Marcus Franken, Axel Nowak, Christian Haas u. a .: Once in a lifetime . 1st edition. tape 3 : 100 adventure on water. Travel-House-Media, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8342-1165-1 .
  • Janice Jakait: Thundering silence / A woman rowing across the Atlantic . Scorpio Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 3-943416-56-9 .
  • GWR Ltd .: Guinness Book of World Records 2015. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag (translation), 2015, ISBN 3-455-50345-4 , pp. 152 .
  • Janice Jakait: Don't be too late . Europa Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95890-024-0 .
  • Janice Jakait: Love or the courage to give myself instead of giving me up. Scorpio Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95803-130-2 .
  • Janice Jakait: Find yourself and you have nothing more to lose. Scorpio Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95803-132-6 .

Web links

Commons : Janice Jakait  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 6500 kilometer journey: German rowing across the Atlantic in 90 days. In: Spiegel Online . February 21, 2012, accessed March 5, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Alone on the oceans - Janice Jakait. (No longer available online.) In: rowforsilence.com. Archived from the original on March 15, 2013 ; Retrieved March 5, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Bröker: "Whales will scratch their backs on my rowboat". In: The time . November 17, 2011, accessed March 5, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Rowing for calm oceans. (No longer available online.) In: OceanCare . Archived from the original on February 15, 2014 ; Retrieved March 5, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Guest of the day: Janice Jakait - the first German to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. In: Hessischer Rundfunk . April 29, 2012, archived from the original on September 3, 2012 ; accessed on March 5, 2013 (The podcast is not available in the web archive. It can be accessed at www.podcast.de/episode/93186078 .).
  6. ↑ Daniel J. Schütz: The young woman and the sea. In: Tages-Anzeiger . February 29, 2012, accessed March 5, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Jakait, Janice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German extreme athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengefeld , Ore Mountains