The Toby Wallace & OysterShack crews are now leaving on Monday 24th November 2014 at 2200hrs GMT. The decision has been called in the past hour for reasons of safety.
The ARC 2014 Race which was due to be leaving Las Palmas, Gran Canaria this afternoon has postponed until tomorrow morning at 10.30am. Over 100 sailing boats are taking part and whilst the ARC departure this afternoon would have meant the sailing fleet would have passed by the time our crews left this evening, due to their delay it would mean the whole sailing fleet passing our two rowing boats tomorrow. The two skippers, Simon Chalk and Paul Williams, feel that in the interests of safety of both the crews and the boats, they are postponing the start for 24 hours.
Apologies to all but safety is the overriding priority.