Andrew Bedwell and the Big C Atlantic Challenge
"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." - Aeschylus Have you seen the seed of a redwood tree? The Aeschylus quote above embodies what many of us know in our minds but still sometimes find hard to believe with our eyes. It was that way when I first heard about Andrew Bedwell's next big adventure and laid eyes upon his tiny sailboat. There are plenty of sailors who have crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a wide variety of vessels, but none who have done so aboard a sailing vessel so diminutive as Bedwell's ironically named "Big C". Ready for the specs? Big C is just 39 inches long! This is a boat that even my 10-year old daughter would find cramped, and yet Andrew Bedwell intends on sailing it from St. Johns, Newfoundland to Cornwall, England in May of 2023, and by so doing breaking the world record for the smallest vessel to sail across the Atlantic. The ~1,900 mile record is currently held by American sailor Hugo Vihlen who completed the Atlantic cro