US EditionBritish Women Make History Rowing Pacific Ocean Non-Stop
- Two British women, Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne, became the first all-female crew to row non-stop and unaided across the Pacific Ocean, completing an 8,213 nautical mile voyage from Peru to Cairns in the nine-metre vessel Velocity.
- After an April setback with a broken rudder, Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne launched in May in Velocity and raised about 80,000 pounds for The Outward Bound Trust.
- The pair rowed unsupported, spending around 15 hours each day at the oars and alternating two-hour sleep shifts in a tiny cabin with 400kg of freeze-dried food, a water desalinator and solar panels.
- Even as they reached Cairns, Miriam Payne said, `The wind was way higher than forecast, we pretty much had to row into a 20-knot headwind` and `we thought we were going to have to run aground and swim to shore.`
- Despite extreme sea conditions, Miriam Payne and Jess Rowe faced 30-foot waves, whale encounters, beacon failure, equipment breakdowns, and ran out of snacks 30 days before the finish; Payne said, `We loved every minute of it`.
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Rowing-British women complete non-stop 8,000-mile Pacific row
Two British women have completed an 8,213 nautical mile non-stop row across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in the Australian coastal city of Cairns after a near six-month voyage from Peru. Read more at straitstimes.com.
After a 165-day journey across the Pacific Ocean, a British rowing duo has reached their final destination on Australia's east coast. Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne set off from Lima, the capital of Peru, in early May. In an attempt to set a record, the pair had to cover a distance of approximately 15,000 kilometers. The journey was revenge for a failed attempt in April, when they were forced to abandon due to a faulty rudder. The second record atte…
Two British women arrived on Australia's east coast today after a grueling six-month journey rowing across the Pacific Ocean from Peru.
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