
Livar Nysted (born 27 September 1970) is an
ocean rower
Ocean rowing is the sport of rowing across oceans. Some ocean rowing boats can hold as many as fourteen rowers; however, the most common ocean rowboats are designed for singles, doubles, and fours.
The history of ocean rowing is divided into two ...
and painter.
Career
Faroese Champion in Ocean Rowing in Fjords and Sounds (Kappróður)

Livar Nysted has won the Faroese Championship in outdoor rowing three times: in 2001, 2004 and 2007. There are six events held around the islands every summer, the winner gets 7 points, number two gets 5 points, number three gets 4 points etc. The boat which gets most points after all six boat races wins the Faroese Championship.
*2001 Faroese Champion with the boat Nevið Reyða, 8-mannafar, they got 40 points, they won 5 of 6 competitions that year (only men are rowing in this boat size), Klaksvíkar Róðrarfelag (Rowing Club from Klaksvík)
*2004 Faroese Champion with the boat Sundabáturin, the men's 6-mannafar, Norðdepils-Hvannasunds Róðrarfelag (Rowing Club from Norðdepil and Hvannasund)
*2007 Faroese Champion with the boat Eysturoyingur, 10-mannafar (only men are rowing in this boat size), Kappróðrarfelagið NSÍ (Rowing Club from Runavík)
His first attempts in long distance ocean rowing in 2003 and 2005
In 2003, Livar Nysted and nine other Faroese men made an attempt to row from the Faroe Islands to the Shetland Islands in a Faroese rowing boat, just like the Faroese ocean rower
Ove Joensen did all by himself in 1986. The boat was called Norðoyingur, which means a person who comes from the Northern Islands (Norðoyggjar) in the Faroes. They got bad weather and had to give up after 24 hours. Two years later in 2005 he tried again this time with another crew and another boat, which was called Havrenningur. They almost made it, they saw the coast of the
Shetland Islands
Shetland (until 1975 spelled Zetland), also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the Uni ...
, but they were more or less ordered to give up, because of bad weather, and so they did. Their trip ended after 6 days, and they were only 18 miles from the shore. A boat from the Shetland Coast Guard dragged them to land.
La Mondiale in 2009
In 2009, Livar Nysted was one of the crew members of La Mondiale, which made an attempt to cross the
South Atlantic Ocean
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, it was a speed record attempt. The boat was cut short by the irreparable damage to the rudder after a collision with an unknown submerged object. The 14 crew were evacuated safely onto a passing ship 'Island Ranger' but the boat was lost presumed sunk some 1000 miles from the
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (; ) or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, Autonomous Community of Spain. They are located in the northwest of Africa, with the closest point to the cont ...
.
Crossing the North Atlantic in 2010 - Two World Records were broken
Livar Nysted along with captain
Leven Brown and two other crew members of the rowing boat Artemis Investments, Don Lennox and
Ray Carroll holds two
Guinness World Records
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, both were sat on their adventurous trip from
New York City
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to the
Scilly Isles
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in the UK in 2010. First they sat ''the world record for longest distance rowed in 24h in an ocean rowing boat'' at 118miles
When they decided to make the trip, it was in order to try to beat the long-standing North Atlantic speed record set in 1896 by Norwegians
Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo
Frank Samuelsen (26 February 1870 – 1946) and George Harbo (14 September 1864 – 1909) were Norwegian-Americans who in 1896 became the first people ever to row across an ocean. Their time record for rowing the North Atlantic Ocean was no ...
which had stood at 55 days 7 hours for some 114 years. Their boat 'Artemis Investments' left
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...
on 17 June 2010 and arrived in St Mary's on 31 July 2010 in a time of 43 days 21 hours 26 mins and 48 seconds. Which remains the record to date for the North Atlantic. During their voyage they were capsized twice in storms.
Crossing the South Atlantic with Avalon in 2013
Eight men left
Puerto de Mogán
Puerto de Mogán is a picturesque fishing village and popular marina in the municipality of Mogán, Las Palmas, Mogán, set at the mouth of a steep-sided valley on the south-west coast of the island of Gran Canaria.
Canals linking the marina to ...
,
Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria (, ; ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, a Spain, Spanish archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa. the island had a population of that constitut ...
on 17 January 2013 in order to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowing boat. Another boat, Titan, left two days before them. The crew of Avalon aimed to reach
Port Saint Charles in
Barbados
Barbados, officially the Republic of Barbados, is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and the easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American ...
in less than 30 days in order to set a new world record. Captain on this trip was
Leven Brown, the same man who was captain on Artemis in 2010, when four rowers broke a 114-year-old record. Leven had once before sat a world record on this distance, it was in 2008 with La Mondiale. In 2011 another boat, Sara G., took La Mondiale's record. The crew of Avalon were
Leven Brown, Livar Nysted, Tim Spiteri, Calum McNicol, Benno Rawlinson, Peter Fleck, James Cowan, and Jan Øner.
Crossing the Indian Ocean with tRio in 2013
In summer 2013, Nysted went on another expedition together with two other men:
Maxime Chaya from
Lebanon
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and the British
Stuart Kershaw
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Biography
Kershaw has worked with the band in various capacities since 1991, and in 2015, became ...
. Their journey started in
Perth
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,
Australia
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on 9 June 2013. They crossed the Indian Ocean by rowing. They arrived at Mauritius on 5 August 2013 after rowing for 57 days, 15 hours and 49 minutes, which was new world record. Livar sat three world records after completing this journey: he and the two others were the first crew of three to cross the Indian Ocean, they were also the fastest rowing crew to row this distance and Livar sat a new world record for having crossed two oceans in a rowing boat within the same year.
Aktuelt.fo, Prógvini hjá Livari komin fram
(''in Faroese'')
References
External links
Trip.fo (in Faroese)
Oceanrowenets.com (photo gallery)
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Ocean rowers
Faroese male rowers
Faroese painters
1970 births
Living people