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2011

●   Erden Eruc - Best of ExplorersWeb 2011 Awards - Special mention
    "... Like few others Erden has demonstrated persistence, self reliance and courage on his human-powered world
    circumnavigation. But only like the greatest Erden has time and again lived up to the ideals of sportsmanship..." 

 

  !!!  Congratulations  !!!
to the Webmaster of the Ocean Rowing Society Int.

oceanrower

Theodore Rezvoy

on the 10th Anniversary of his successful solo row
across the Atlantic E-W
from San Sebastian de La Gomera to Barbados

(Oct 12 - Dec 18 2001. 67d 06h 35min)

 

The 20th Dijon International Adventure Film Festival, officially called "Les Écrans de l'Aventure"
   took place on November 3 - 6, 2011 in Burgundy, France.
 

It's interesting
 
The First Row in the Indian Ocean ? 

On 4 June 1923 Cecil Foster, a master marine from Barry, Wales, and team of 33 British sailors in two life-boats escaped from a shipwreck of the Hain Line steamer Trevessa, (she was heading from Fremantle, WA and was already 1700 miles from shore), and survived  a 23-day lifeboat ordeal, until coming ashore on Rodriguez and Mauritius Islands. 
30 June, the anniversary of the second boat's landing at Bel-Ombre, is still a national holiday in Mauritius. Originally it was known as Trevessa Day, but more recently it's been broadened out to become Seafarers' Day                  For details >>>

●  ""Boro man draws ire of rowing community" - Victor Mooney and his attempts to row an ocean

            - You are being invited to take part in a research study "A sociological investigation into risk seeking behaviour in ocean rowing "
               Please take time to read the following >>>

   

Expedition cancelled
 

August 2011: oceanrower Ralph Tuijn (NL) will add more sea miles to his Atlantic and Pacific crossings by rowing in team with Pieter Smit non-stop from Amsterdam to Svalbard, aka Spitzbergen (the northernmost inhabited island in the world). The route of 2890km/1796 miles as the crow flies is crossing the northern part of the Atlantic and ending in the Arctic Ocean, so the working title of the expedition is: “80 Degrees North Challenge”. It will be the first time that an ocean rowboat is going that far north (record of Smurgis is 77˚ 44' N) and the second time that it reaches the Arctic ocean.
Note: Expedition website to be launched in Dutch and English

 

June 18th, 2011: ocean rowers Katie Spotz (USA, Atlantic E-W Trades II, 2010) and Sam Williams (GB, Atlantic E-W, 2008)  set out in Race Across America or "RAAM", a 3,000 mile, non-stop bike race that started in Oceanside, CA. and ends in Manassas, VA. and  features more than 250 racers from 15 countries. Their goal is to complete the race in 8 days.>>>

 

June 25th 2011: ocean rower Chris Cuddihy (USA) is once again leading a crew in an attempt to row non-stop around Long Island to raise money for veterans >>> 

 

  

June 15th, 2011: Rowers Chris Walters, Brian Fletcher, Tony Short and Elliot Dale, who are going to row the Atlantic E-W in December, have taken on the Channel in a bid to forge links with a French town, as part of the Lyme Regis/Barfleur twinning initiative. The Corinthians’ loaned ocean rowboat Oyster Shack has been used for the Barfleur run. >>>
 May 26th 2011:  at about 2:45BST oceanrower Ben Thackwray reached the summit of Mt.Everest. Congratulations !!! 

English >>>
French>>> 
Spanish>>>		 March 3, 2011: Oceanrower Anne Quéméré (the first and the only woman to row the Atlantic both ways solo - 2002, 2004) has completed the navigation of  the Pacific in a kite-boat Adrien from Peru to Tahiti, French Polynesia.  
Left La Punta Yacht Club, Lima on March 3rd 2011 at 02:00GMT (March 2, 2011 at 21:00 local time)
May 18th 2011 : Arrived French Polynesia, Tuamotu Archipelago  after 77 days at sea and 3 792 nautical miles (7023kms) left behind
 

May 18th 2011: Congratulations to ocean rower James Ketchell (Atlantic E-W solo, 2010) on successful summiting Mt.Everest !!! 
Read an article from May 12th:  base camp two – 6,500m, Lhotse >>>
     

 

 

 
 

Orlando Rogers

  

1985 - 2011

  
   

 

On Sunday afternoon, May 15th 2011 ocean rower (Atlantic E-W December 2 2007 - January 26 2008 ),
 former Royal Marine Orlando Rogers
was involved  in a Tiger Moth biplane crash in Dorset  and died later in hospital.

 

He was immensely special to all who knew him. His unique charisma, positive outlook and enthusiasm for life touched and inspired all those around him. His death leaves an unfillable void for his family and many friends and colleagues.

"His example on living life to the fullest will never dissipate; whether it was rowing the Atlantic, racing Zap Cats, sky diving or skiing. He died as he lived – in action     >>>

 

Read newspaper article Plane crash victim Royal Marine from Newton Abbot 'lived life to full' >>>

 

If you would like to share your memories of Orlando then please use this link to AOR's page >>>   
 This will be passed onto to his family
 

  

LEST WE FORGET

Curtis Lloyd Saville, 1946-2001
 

 

It has been 10 years  since
ocean rower Curtis Lloyd Saville,
died in the Eastern Desert of Egypt while on a solo desert mountain expedition on April 28, 2001 >>>

 

 

 Thomas Butscher (67, team Big Blue) became the oldest person to row any ocean

 Suzanne Pinto (57, team Britannia III) became the oldest female to row any ocean

 

 Leadership skills win PCSO Shaun Barker  (team of The First 4 - Queensgate 2004) a top award  >>>

 

  Welcome to the launch of Sarah Outen's new book on February 16th 2011 (Holland Park, London) >>>

 

2010
 

For wedding photos >>>
 
 
A response of Simon Chalk about the nature of his financial position >>>
 
 
 

Congratulations to ocean rower Ralph Tuijn on breaking the Guinness World Record for the fastest human powered crossing of Africa -  11,117 km on a bike from Cairo to Capetown through 10 countries in 80 days 6 hours 7 minutes
                                                                                                                      For details (Dutch)>>> ; (ENG)>>>

 
 

Paralympian
ocean rower Angela Madsen

  
will demonstrate adaptive rowing and showcase her ocean rowboat, Row Of Life, that carried her into Guinness record fame as the first woman to row across the Indian Ocean.

 


Congratulations
to
ocean rower
 VICTORIA ELIZABETH "TORI" MURDEN MCCLURE
(The First Woman to Row an Ocean Solo
 and the First American to Row Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean - Atlantic East to West, 1999)

on being elected
 the President of Spalding University
 She became the 10th president of Spalding University and the first non-Catholic
 to occupy the role in the Catholic institution's 196-year history. For details >>>
From Statistics:  (true for Feb 3 2010)


Currently there are simultaneously more ocean rowers  at sea then ever -

  7   solos,
44 - in teams of two,
11 - in teams of four,
  6 - in a team of six
12 - in a team of 12,  which totals
80 ocean rowers, among them - 15 female ocean rowers
 
Note: In 2008 within the period from January 12th till January 17th
         there were simultaneously 78 ocean rowers at sea, among them - 15 female ocean rowers
 

Two ocean rowers
 Rachel Smith (Atlantic E-W, 2007) and Sarah Outen (Indian E-W, 2009)
 are speakers at Adventure Travel Live
in London Royal Horticultural Halls, Victoria

Rachel will be talking on Saturday, 30th January at 4 - 4.45pm:
          'Living the Dream: rowing and capsizing in the Atlantic'

Sarah will be talking  on Sunday, 31st January at 4 - 4.45pm:
'Rowing Across the Indian Ocean - Alone'

More details & Press Release >>>   Press article >>>  

 

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