oceanrowing

Pacific Pete

Pacific Pete is one of the very few boats that have made 5 successful ocean rows: 1 - double and 4 - solo
In 1997 this boat entered the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race as Toc H Phoenix and was rowed by Mark Stubbs and Steve Issacs. They became the 10th double to row the Atlantic E-W
No	Name	Surname	Country	Boat name	Start	Finish	Duration	From	To

10	Steve	Issacs	GB	Toc H Phoenix	October 12 1997	December 09 1997	58d 12hr	Los Gigantes Tenerife, Spain	Port St Charles, Barbados
	Mark	Stubbs

In 1999 Geoff Allum, who in team with his cousin Don Allum was the first double to row the Atlantic East to West in 1971, purchased the boat and gave it the current name - Pacific Pete (after Peter Bird, b.1947 - lost at sea1996) Since then the boat completed 4 solo rows, which were consecutively the 18th, 22nd, 31st and 48th solo rows across the Atlantic East to West.

No	Name	Surname	Country	Age	Boat name	Start	Finish	Duration	From	To
18	Martin	Wood	GB	33	Pacific Pete	January 16 2003	March 25 2003	68 days 01 h 57 min	San Sebastian, La Gomera, Spain	Port St. Charles, Barbados
22	Sam (Samson)	Knight	GB	23	Pacific Pete TNT	January 20 2004 11:00GMT	March 19 2004	59 days 5h 48 min	San Sebastian, La Gomera, Spain	Port St. Charles, Barbados
31	Chris	Martin	GB	24	Pacific Pete	November 30 2005	February 07 2006, 03:24GMT	68 days 15h 19min	San Sebastian, La Gomera, Spain	English Harbour, Antigua
48	Sam	Williams	GB	24	Pacific Pete	January 12 2008	March 27 2008 19:58GMT	75 days 4h 43min	San Sebastian, La Gomera, Spain	English Harbour, Antigua

A noteworthy fact is that all three youngest solo ocean rowers* on the Atlantic East-West Canaries to Caribbean route rowed in this same boat - Pacific Pete.
(The youngest on all routes solo ocean rower was Oliver Hicks, who rowed the Atlantic West to East in 2005. He was 23 at his start and only slightly more than 1 months younger than Sam Knight at the start of his row)

* - The age at the start of the above mentioned youngest solo ocean rowers was as follows:
Oliver Hicks - 23 years 5 month 24 days
Sam Knight - 23 years 7 month 1 day;
Sam Williams - 24 years 1 month 10 days;
Chris Martin - 24 years 10 months 3 days.