Although we aren’t ocean rowing ourselves at the moment, we have had several busy months with ocean rowing and rowers! We’ve been recruiting hard – we have a female crew set to head out after the female Atlantic record in January 2016. We also have only ONE SPACE LEFT onboard the Toby Wallace Atlantic speed record attempt in January too. If you are interested, get in touch sooner rather than later!
Simon Chalk, our resident ocean rower, was in New York last month advising and helping with boat preparations for Tom Hudson and Pete Fletcher, who have been on the water for nearly 18 days now – rowing from New York to the UK. They’ve been experiencing some heavy weather in the past few days so their tracker currently looks like they are doing a “figure 8” but this is passing. You can follow their progress and do some dot-watching at their website www.daretodream.today.
We’ve also been involved with the tenacious American woman, Sonya Baumstein – she is rowing over 6,000nm across the North Pacific ocean from Japan to San Francisco. Leaving port in Japan today (7th June 2015), she has a long journey ahead of her but she is strong and resilient and has rowed the Atlantic in 2011 as part of the the rowing race. Simon Chalk and Oceanus Rowing are on call as Duty Officers to Sonya for any advice and assistance during her crossing and we wish her the very best in this project – www.expeditionpacific.com.
Finally, Fedor Konyukhov has been back to Mooloolaba, Eastern Australia in May to commemorate his ocean row from Chile to Australia last year. A bronze plaque was unveiled in recognition of his achievement – just opposite the place on the beach where Fedor landed. We can’t believe it has been a year already!! A fantastic thing to see him arrive after 160 days rowing mainland to mainland on 31 May 2014 – a “once in a lifetime” day!
Exciting projects happening and to come…..watch this space!!