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Bert terHart’s Knack for Knocking Off the Impossible: The Transformative Power of Doing Hard Things

6 min readJul 1, 2025

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Have you ever been captivated by the power and the mystery of the oceans? Imagine logging 50,000 miles of solo sailing adventures, including a non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, and a 7800 km paddling journey across Canada from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Or, how about having a passion for the oceans and oceanography, and investigating the role the world’s oceans and coastal seas play in moderating and regulating climate, nutrient productivity, pollution distributions, and salmon migration?

Or, maybe you’re more interested in entrepreneurship and making an impact in the lives of others using technology and artificial intelligence? Or, perhaps you have a desire to be an author? If so, you’re in luck, because in this episode I talk with a person who has done all that, and more, the remarkable polymath, Bert terHart.

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Bert has sailed solo, non-stop around the world, into the Bering Sea, and out to the Aleutian Islands, accumulating more than 50,000 nautical miles of solo adventuring all in an effort to follow in the wake of some of the world’s greatest explorers and cartographers —…

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