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The Atlantic Rowing Race is an ocean rowing race from the Canary Islands to the West Indies, a distance of approximately 2,550 nm (2,930 statute miles or 4,700 km). The race was founded in 1997 by Sir Chay Blyth with subsequent races roughly every two years since. [ 1 ]
Clint Evans (born 9 April 1961) [1] is an ocean rower and winner of the 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race with his partner Chris Andrews in their boat C 2 [2] – the first British crew to win the Atlantic Rowing Race.. Evans is a strategy and business performance consultant, mentor and coach.
The Atlantic race had given Shekhdar a taste for ocean rowing and his sights soon turned to the Pacific.Peter Bird had rowed across the Pacific already but he had stopped in Hawaii and eventually ended up being rescued by the Australian Navy 33 miles from the Australian mainland.
The Sea Donkeys and the Mayflower rowers set off with nearly 40 teams from 21 countries in the race called the World's Toughest Row on 11 December. ... More stories about rowing the Atlantic ...
Meek and her son, Daniel, participated in the first ocean rowing race and rowed 3,044 nautical miles (5,637 km) from Tenerife to Barbados.In rowing across the Atlantic, the pair achieved two Guinness World Records: they became the first mother and son team to row any ocean, [3] and at 53, Meek became the oldest person at the time to row across any ocean. [4]
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On 5 December 2011, Row2Recovery's first Atlantic rowing crew [2] departed the Port of San Sebastian on La Gomera, one of Spain's Canary Islands.The crew was made of up of four servicemen who had been wounded in action and two able-bodied servicemen. 50 days, 23 hours and 12 minutes later, [3] Team Sealegs arrived in Port St Charles, Barbados on 25 January 2012.
Andrew Osborne battled extreme sickness and a storm before arriving in Antigua 11 weeks after setting off from Gran Canaria.