He crossed the Atlantic solo in a boat he built himself

He was 1,300 miles from land, and another storm was barreling in. He liked the lyrics: “Don’t wanna wait ‘til tomorrow / Why put it off another day?” After 33 days at sea, Jack Johnson arrives in Antigua in a 3,200-mile voyage across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands. Jack Johnson had once thought the script of his life was written — until he met his wife, Deby, who made it possible for him to pursue his dream of racing across the Atlantic. On Dec. 11 — halfway to Antigua and in first place by almost 100 miles — Jack celebrated, opening Deby’s second gift: a small bottle of Hendrick’s gin and the requisite accompaniment of tonic. Starting from Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, Jack Johnson takes a quick lead setting a southerly course down the coast of Africa in search of the trade winds that would send him west to Antigua.