Mr Baluchi has tried three similar voyages before, all of which ended in Coast Guard intervention.
In 2021, he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point.

Traveling due north he drifted 30 miles south. Slight design flaw.
Only one way to Carnegie Hall!
He's like those French and Italian Renaissance men who glued on feathers and flung themselves (or sometimes peasants) from the church belfry.
It's a free country, the Coast Guard should just point him east and get out of his way.
Godspeed Capt. Baluchi