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Brown is taking a video camera to film what he thinks is the longest-ever unescorted cross-oceanic ride in a flats boat.

Similar stunts may have been done, but not without an escort, he said.

He will contact Guinness World Records when he and his brother return.

Brown wants the world to know what his boats are capable of.

“No one will laugh when we’re finished with this trip,” he said.

Reporter Tony Holt can be contacted at 352-544-5283.

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Have you mastered fear?

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I don't think anyone has a complete mastery of fear.

A complete mastery of fear would be fearlessness.

I don't think anybody has no fear at all.

But I think that my fears now are largely around my children rather than myself.

Q.In a chapter on body image, you tell a bizarre story about being excluded from a parade of all the tallest girls at your school because you were too tall.What kind of parade was this?

A.

Well, it was the [school] parade of the tallest girls.

...

It was really personally tough being freakishly tall.

I would not be symmetrical [in the parade].

You know it took me a long time to update my self-image.

It took me almost until my late 20s, early 30s before I started wearing high heels.

I'm 5-10.

I was 5-10 at 13.

Q.Do your daughters blog?

A.

No, they don't do any But sometimes they will read a letter from another woman [on the "Fearless Voices" portion of her Web site].

They get more from that than listening to their own mom.

Q.On Becoming Fearless is much different from your previous books, which include biographies of Pablo Picasso and Maria Callas.

Was this book easier to write?

A.

It was more difficult in that I had to make the decision to be vulnerable and intimate about my own life, my own blog, my own divorce [her ex-husband Michael Huffington publicly came out as a bisexual after t...