Oh, yeah, my wife's family has a bit on mental instability, too. Her grandmother's uncle, Frank Samuelson, a Norwegian immigrant living in New Jersey, paired with George Harbo to become the first to row across the Atlantic in 1896, covering 3250 miles from NY to England in 56 days. I believe it is a record that has yet to be broken.

As it turns out, that was the same year the Joshua Slocum was in the middle of his epic solo circumnavigation aboard Spray.