Kimball Obeng Solo · Atlantic 2029

About Kimball

A financial advisor takes on the ultimate solo challenge.

Kimball Obeng has built a career helping people reach distant goals through discipline and small, consistent steps. Now he is testing that philosophy against 3,000 miles of open ocean.

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The story

Why row an ocean?

By profession, Kimball is a financial advisor: an MBA and a Certified Financial Planner who spends his days helping people turn enormous, far-off ambitions into plans they can actually follow. The work rewards patience, discipline and trust, the same qualities an ocean demands.

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What he can already tell you is why it matters. “Dream Big, Small Steps” is not a slogan he picked up for a website. It is how he counsels clients, how he has built his own life, and now it is the spine of an expedition that will take roughly 1.5 million individual strokes to complete. The dream is enormous. The method is almost boringly simple: take the next step, then the next, and do not stop.

Expedition meets boardroom

“A crossing is a portfolio: a single, calculated risk, funded with discipline, paid back one small return at a time. The ocean does not reward the reckless, and neither does the market.”

Kimball Obeng, CFP

Confidence, not bravado

The reassurance behind the adventure.

Sponsors need to know their brand will reach the start line. His family needs to know he will come home. Here is the structure that makes both possible.

Qualified to be there

  • RYA Sea Survival
  • RYA First Aid at Sea
  • RYA Essential Navigation & Seamanship
  • Short Range Radio (VHF/SRC) Licence
  • Ocean Rowing Course

Five formal certifications are mandatory before any rower can start.

Trained for it

  • 240+ hours of qualifying rows for a solo entrant
  • 192 of those hours on open ocean
  • 48 hours rowing in darkness
  • Capsize recovery and para-anchor drills, on video

Logged with verifiable GPS tracks and inspected before the boat can ship.

Supported at sea

  • 24/7 cover from the race Safety Officers
  • A race doctor on call by satellite
  • Daily position tracking and check-ins
  • Response vessels and a crisis plan built with rescue authorities

Kimball rows solo, but he is never truly alone out there.

On a proven boat

  • A design proven to self-right after a capsize
  • Watertight cabins and bulkheads
  • A full redundant safety and communications suite
  • Three mandatory inspections before the start

The organisers call it the safest and most successful ocean race on the planet.

The campaign, in small steps

Seven steps to Antigua.

The whole journey, framed the only way an ocean can be crossed: one step at a time. [PLACEHOLDER: add target dates as they firm up.]

  1. Step 1

    Commit to the dream

    Announce the campaign and begin the build-up.

  2. Step 2

    Secure the boat

    Acquire and fit out the ocean rowing boat.

  3. Step 3

    Qualify

    Log 240+ hours and pass every required course.

  4. Step 4

    Final prep & inspection

    Ship to La Gomera and pass scrutineering.

  5. Step 5

    The start line

    Depart San Sebastián de La Gomera.

  6. Step 6

    The crossing

    3,000 miles, one stroke at a time.

  7. Step 7

    Antigua

    Row into English Harbour. Dream reached.

Back the person, not just the row.

Sponsors are not betting on luck. They are backing a disciplined, qualified, well-supported campaign with a clear plan to the finish line.

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