However, despite all the hard work and time put in by both ourselves and the above-mentioned, we wouldn’t have gotten very far without our funding. Reaching our Kickstarter fundraising goal was a necessity. We launched the Kickstarter the first week of November, 2014, and departed for the Caribbean on December 2nd. This was still several days before the Kickstarter donation period ended. With the Kickstarter platform, project funding is all or nothing – if we didn’t meet our goal of raising $18,500 by the end of the funding period, we would receive none of the pledged donations.

We found out via satellite phone that we had met and surpassed our goal while afloat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. If not for the overwhelmingly generous donations that we received from our Kickstarter backers, the expedition would have been a failure and our plans and ideas would have been cut well short.

Thank you!