In January 2013 he went on another journey, this time the plan was to cross the South Atlantic Ocean with a boat called Avalon.

The crew was eight men, they started on 18 January from Puerto de Mogán, Gran Canaria, and their plan was to row to Port Saint Charles, Barbados.

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.

[7] 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, both were sat on their adventurous trip from New York City to the Scilly Isles in the UK in 2010.

First they sat the world record for longest distance rowed in 24h in an ocean rowing boat at 118miles[8] 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 which had stood at 55 days 7 hours for some 114 years.

Their boat 'Artemis Investments' left New York City 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.

[10] Eight men left Puerto de Mogán, Gran Canaria on 17 January 2013 in order to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowing boat.

The crew of Avalon aimed to reach Port Saint Charles in Barbados in less than 30 days in order to set a new world record.

[11] The crew of Avalon were Leven Brown, Livar Nysted, Tim Spiteri, Calum McNicol, Benno Rawlinson, Peter Fleck, James Cowan, and Jan Øner.