Getting to the Starting Line

$22.95

Description

Every day, America loses Veterans to suicide.

Fight Oar Die was born from a simple, audacious idea:

Put four Veterans in a rowboat, point them across the Atlantic Ocean, and prove—publicly, painfully, gloriously-that people are capable of far more than they believe.

They wanted to inspire other Veterans to challenge themselves, to do hard things, and to ask for help.

Getting to the Starting Line is the inside story of the small, all-volunteer nonprofit that sent four all-Veteran teams into the World’s Toughest Row. It’s the story of the years of fundraising, training, setbacks, and sacrifice behind every single stroke-and of the men who came home changed. It’s the story of a beloved boat called Woobie and her return after three years lost at sea.

Told in the honest, funny, and vulnerable voices of the rowers and those closest to them, this book is not really about rowing; it’s about doing hard things. It’s about what is found in the silence and isolation that rowing an ocean provides.

Staying in the harbor is safe.

This is what happens when you don’t.

About the author

Laurie M. Knight is a friend, mom, wife, adventurer, editor, and more. She loves working from her home on Mobile Bay, Alabama with her sidekick, a yellow Lab named Gumbo. Reenen Stenekamp, a middle-aged husband and father of three, settled down decades ago in the Free State countryside of South Africa. He holds a law degree and has experience in rugby administration on an international level. These days he divides his time between running his own business, writing, and rugby punditry. An unlikely duo from two very different sides of the world, Laurie and Reenen teamed up to bring Getting to the Starting Line to life.

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