Living 1,152 Days at Sea - Reid Stowe

Russia's Valeri Polyakov holds the record for a single space flight, setting it in 1995 after staying aboard the Mir space station for 437 days. Reid Stowe nearly tripled that mark when he spent 1,152 days aboard his schooner, many of them alone. Unlike Polyakov, Stowe didn't have to deal with the physical impacts of living prolonged periods in weightlessness. But Polyakov may have had it better, as Stowe's ship flipped off of Cape Horn, endured freezing temperatures in the Southern Ocean, and had to dodge hurricanes in the North Atlantic and typhoons in the South Pacific. Stowe says that he came home to be with his family, but he was provisioned enough to spend another year at sea.