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Rows in 2007:

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ROW LASTED
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33:07:30:00

 British/Irish team of Peter Donaldson, Mike Tooth, Julian Barnwell, Reinhardt von Hof, Ray Carroll, Charlie Taylor, Stuart Kershaw, Don Lennox, Oliver Dudley, Rob Loder-Symonds, Peter Luard, Jamie Walker & Dr. Liam Hughes, led by ocean rower  Leven Brown of  Ocean Rowing Events rowed across the Atlantic', from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands to Port St Charles, Barbados.
''La Mondiale'' - the French ocean rowboat that for sixteen years (since 1992) has held the ocean rowing record for the fastest crossing time of the Atlantic (35 days 8h 30 min), was refurbished by ORS Int. technical team before setting to sea again.
La Mondiale was racing team of ORCA  for the title of the fastest ocean rowboat to row across the Atlantic East - West along the classic Trade Winds Route (Canaries to Caribbean's) .                                          

 Left Puerto Mogan, Gran Canaria on December 15 2007 at 13:05GMT
 LANDED AT PORT ST CHARLES  AT 20:35GMT JANUARY 17 2008

NEW WORLD RECORD - 33 DAYS 7HOURS 30MIN
 

Positions and speed of La Mondiale in comparison with Oyster Shack, All Relative (2005) and Atlantic Quest (2007)  >>>
 

Statistics of ocean rows from Canary Islands

Statement of the ORS Int. re the time of ORCA's arrival  >>>

Left Puerto Mogan, Gran Canaria on December 15 2007 at 13:05GMT
Arrived in Barbados on Jan 20th 2008 at 14:14GMT (10:14 local time)
Rowed in Port St Charles at 19:45GMT (15:45 local time)
Became the first multihull ocean rowboat to row across an ocean

On December 24-25 team ORCA reported to have rowed 114 miles in 23 1/2 hours (t.b.c.).

Dec 23 2007 - Jan 1 2008 - 100+ miles per day for 9 days in a row (t.b.c.)

  Ralph Tuijn (Netherlands)

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258:00:00:00

 is rowing  the Pacific E-W solo from Callao, Peru to Cairns, Australia in the boat Zeeman Challenger

Left Callao, Peru on March 14th 2007 at 18:00GMT 13:00 local time
Landed (washed ashore) on the southwest tip of the Atafu Atoll, on the Tokelau Atolls (The Union Islands) on August 25 2007

The row is recognized as a completed Mid-Pacific row land to land.

With the help of the local canoe-builders Ralph has managed to repair Zeeman Ocean Challenger
and to set out to sea again
Left Atafu Atoll on Friday, October 19th 2007 at 20:00GMT (10am local time)

    Statistics of the Pacific Ocean Rows

"Club 100+" -  solo rows of more than 100 days

"Club 100+" -  all ocean rows of more than 100 days

Sea Trial of Le Mondiale

October 6th 2007, 19:30BST
From James 'Tiny' Little on Board support vessel 'Dornoch' : 

Left Leith (Edinburgh) on October 4th 2007 at 07:37BST (06:37GMT). >>>
Finished the row on October 6th 15:00GMT.
Click here to follow the progress >>>

 Time Elapsed

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02 :08 :23 :00

  Glenn Edwards (Canada) & John Williams (GB)

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107:21:30: 00

were rowing  across the Indian Ocean from Fremantle, WA to Mauritius - distance, as the crow flies, of 3667 miles (5901 km) (3187 nautical miles)  John Williams, who rowed the Atlantic E-W with Mick Burke in the 2003 , has teamed up with Canadian Glenn Edwards. They were rowing in boat formally known as ‘Atlantic Warrior'.

After 89 days at sea, on June 22, Glenn Edwards left the row boat for personal reasons, he was picked up by a passing ship DAIO ANDES . John Williams has decided to continue alone and to change the destination for Rodriguez Island

Rodriguez Island, July 9th 2007
It has been arranged for a local boat to go out  at 10pm (local time), locate John Williams and give him tow back to the island. This decision was made as he continued to get pushed North making unassisted landing on the Island  impossible  >>>

Left Fremantle on March 24th 2007 at 12:45GMT (9:45pm local time)
Arrived on Rodriguez Island at  10:15GMT,  July 10 2007

July 2, 2007 - John's 100th day at sea. Welcome to ''Club 100+'' !    "Club 100+" -  all ocean rows of more than 100 days

   Graham Walters (GB)

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99: 08: 38: 00

has rowed the historic ocean rowboat  Puffin from La Gomera to St Jean, St Barts. The row was intended to recognize the contribution of David Johnstone & John Hoare to modern day oceanrowing. It will be  on June the 3rd 2007 41 years ago to the day since the Puffin was the first ocean row to depart in 20th century to attempt an ocean crossing.

Left San Sebastian de La Gomera at 9:55GMT February 3rd 2007

Funds raised by The Puffin Transatlantic Row 1966-2006 will be collected by
the British Red Cross London Emergency Response Appeal.
 It is hoped that 45.000GBP  can be raised
to buy an Ambulance for the London operations of the British Red Cross to be named "Puffin'.

To make a donation please click here

In memory of the crew of Puffin,  David Johnstone and John Hoare,
who were lost at sea in 1966 during the first attempt to row an ocean in the 20th century,
 all teams that departed from La Gomera in December 2006 - February 2007 were each displaying
the Puffin logo
as a sign of respect for Johnstone & Hoare -
two brave and daring men who followed their dream

     Andreu Mateu (Spain)

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94:22:20:00

has rowed  solo across  the Atlantic East to West - from La Gomera, Canary Islands to  Martinique, West Indies, in the boat Isidoro Arias.

Left San Sebastian at 11:40GMT on December 2nd 2006
 March 7th 2007 Andreu called ORS Int HQ and informed that at 10:00GMT he stopped on a small islet of Cabrits off Martinique. He intends to ceremoniously row in Fort-de-France on March 8th, when his family and friends are there to greet him
Congratulations to the first Spanish solo ocean rower!

Gábor Rakonczai & Andrea Pálos(Hungary)

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94:02:40:00

are rowing the Atlantic E-W from Rota, mainland Spain to Antigua. The idea, the design and the building of the boat is their own work.

Left Rota, Spain at 9:00GMT on November 27th 2006
Stopped over in Morocco and Canary Islands  >>>
Departed from Pacito Blanco, Gran Canaria at 5:30GMT on January 9th 2007
Landed in English Harbour of Antigua on March 1st 2007 at 11:40GMT (7:40 local time)

Current record for doubles  from the Canaries to Antigua land-to-land is
51d 2h 10min   (Chris Andrews & Clint Evans, Nov 30 '05 - Jan 20 ''06)

TIME ELAPSED (from Gran Canaria)

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51:06:10:00

Stats of 'Double' rows  Atlantic E-W

Rows to Antigua

Olivier Bertonnier and Bruno Froideval (France)

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51:14:15:00

have rowed the Atlantic E-W from Pacito Blanco, Gran Canaria to Guadeloupe, West Indies in their boat "Oceanite"

Departed from Pacito Blanco at 6:45GMT on Sunday, January 7th 2007
Landed in marina de Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe at 21:00GMT February 27th 2007

    Ed Baylis & Stu Turnbull (GB)

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63:12:46:00

team Atlantic '06  in the boat "Memory of Zayed" have rowed the Atlantic E-W, from La Gomera to Antigua, in support of Cancer Research  Charity UK          

Left San Sebastian de La Gomera at 08:35GMT December 20th 2006

"Rendezvous at sea" -  Pictures >>>  Press >>>

Landed in English Harbour, Antigua at 21:21GMT (17:21 local time) on February 21st 2007.

Click here to see photos from Antigua >>>   24.02.07

Wendel Rontgen and  Gijs Koning   (Netherlands)

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64:02:37:00

have rowed the Atlantic E - W from Puerto de Mogan, Gran Canaria to Antigua. Became the first ocean rowing team to re-supply another ocean rowboat at sea

Departed from Puerto de Mogan, Gran Canaria at 20:00GMT on December 20th 2006

"Mission accomplished" -  Bravo,  team "Optiver" !!!

Landed in English Harbour of Antigua at 22:37GMT (18:37 local time)
Click here to see photos from Antigua  >>>  24.02.07

Dom Mee, Peter Bird, Ed James, Tom Rendell (GB)

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37 :08 :03 :00

Ocean Four Atlantic Quest  have rowed from La Palma, Canary Islands to Barbados. They were hoping to break the current record held by  French team "La Mondiale" since 1992, which still stands at 35 days eight hours.

Left Porto Tazacorte, La Palma at 10:06GMT January 14th 2007

Update from Thomas Herbert, CEO of Port St Charles, Barbados 19 February 2007 23:46:49  >>>  

On 19 February 2007 23:46:49 (14:09 local time) the team landed at Archers Bay, Barbados, one mile West from the North Point,
then took a tow to Bridgetown where moored their boat at 20:00GMT (16:00 local time)

   Bhavik Gandhi (India)

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06:00:00:00

is attempting to be the first Asian to row solo across the Atlantic from La Gomera to Antigua in the boat 'Miss Olive'

Left San Sebastian de La Gomera 11.55GMT  February 12th 2007

On Feb 18th returned to San Sebastian for repairs.

   Victor Gavrishev  (Kyrgyzstan) 

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00:00:00:00

After being forced to return to port along with Bhavik Gandhi and Graham Walters, Victor has to delay the start of his row until January 2008

   Charles Hedrich (France) 

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36:06:37:00

rowed the Atlantic East-West solo from Dakar, Senegal to Brazil in the boat "Respectons la Terre" (Respect the Earth), formerly 'Lady Bird' or 'Somewhere' of Emmanuel Coindre. The distance of 2396 miles (3856 km) (2082 nautical miles)

Left Dakar December 18th 2006 at 8:48GMT
Landed on the Northern shore of the Amazon River on January 23rd 2007 at 15:25GMT
Set the record time for rowing the Atlantic East-West along the route Trade Winds 2

Race of 15 solo ocean rowboats across the Atlantic E to W
 from Saint Louis, Senegal to  Saint Laurent,  French Guyana .

Started on  November 19th 2006 at 10:00GMT
Finished on January 18th 2007 at 20:00GMT 

List of entrants >>>  ● 'Prologue'  and introduction of the competitors   in Saint-Martin-de-Ré (France)  on September 22 2006 >>>

5  out of 15 entrants completed the race: Romain Vergé, Patrick Favre, Jean-François Tardiveau, Sophie Macé
and Christophe Henry
The winner of the race - Romain Vergé, - completed the row in 40 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes, 38 seconds.
  2 rowers were disqualified: Jean Pierre Lacroix and Jean Pierre Lasalarie
and 8 rowers abandoned the race: Patrick Deixonne, Didier Lemoine, Jacques Djeddi, Jo Le Guen, Philippe Soetaert, Emmanuel Coindre, Jean-Jacques Gauthier and Philippe Malapert
The two traps of the race - the equatorial counter-current and the passage of the continental shelf, - have been the cause of many abandonment.
Disqualified rowers entered waters of Guyana but were unable to cross the finish line.