A man in Nebraska celebrated turning 60 over the weekend in style with a 38-mile trip down the River in a carved, 846lb pumpkin called 'Berta' that he had been growing for 10 years as he made history squashing a Guinness World Record. Duane Hansen, now 60, set sail to paddle the Missouri River at around 7.30a.m. on Saturday from Bellevue to Nebraska City, six years after former record holder Rick Swenson created a pumpkin boat to complete a 25.5-mile trip down the Red River from Grand Forks, North Dakota to Breckenridge, in 2016. The trip along the midwestern state's eastern border with took Hansen, who is a Nebraska native from Syracuse, approximately six hours to complete. He sat straight and paddled on a cooler that he had placed inside the pumpkin during the entirety of his journey.
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