PADDLES: 64-Year-Old Kayaker Completes Trans-Atlantic Voyage. “These days, thanks to technological advancements in air and sea travel, crossing the Atlantic is usually no big deal. But crossing the Atlantic by yourself in a kayak? Now that’s still something worth celebrating. . . . And, of course, after arriving back on dry land, Doba did what any self-respecting Brazil-bound kayaker who’d been out on the ocean for 99 days would do: He had a Bohemia beer.”