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Logs and stories by/about oceanrowers
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Bird, Sidney Genders, John Ridgway and Chay Blyth, John Fairfax, Andrew
Halsey, Eugene Smurgis, THE ATLANTIC CHALLENGE RACE 1997 |
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Log of Harbo and Samuelsen (1896) |
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| New York June 6th 1896 left Battery 5 P.M. Weather fine. Wind south. Rowed as far as... | |
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| "We'll see you in France or we'll see you in Heaven!" Read lyrics and listen to the song | |
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Excerpts from THE PENANCE WAY by Merton Naydler |
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Johnstone’s and Hoare’s
attempt was not worthless. |
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Kenneth Kerr (1979 ● 1980) |
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Kerr twice tried to cross the Atlantic from West to East in "BASS CONQUEROR", a 13 foot glass-fibre dinghy. His first attempt ended in failure in 1979... |
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Nenad Belic (2001) |
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| His wife, his daughter, and eventually the nautical experts who guided him all urged Nenad Belic to give up his daring quest to row alone acrossthe Atlantic. But Belic's obsession — like the waves he faced — was nonnegotiable... | |
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Hugh King-Fretts (1984) |
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| "A lone Atlantic rower, Hugh King-Fretts, 36, yesterday explained how his 2,600-mile voyage nearly ended in disaster — just 500 yards off the reef-strewn coast of Barbados..." | |
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Amyr (Khan) Klink (1984) |
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| In 1984 Amyr, then 28, accomplished the first single-handed crossing of the South Atlantic in a rowing boat, journey that he wrote about in his book “Gem dias entre céu e mar” (One hundred days between the sky and the sea). | |
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Andrew Wilson (1980) |
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"The rowing boat belonging to missing
Atlantic oarsman Andrew Wilson has been found wrecked on a Scottish isle. There was no sign of a 23-year-old Andrew. He is presumed drowned..." |
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| Collection of press articles, courtesy of New Zealand Maritime Museum | |
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Mike NESTOR and Sean CROWLEY (1986) |
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The Irish Post, May 24, 1986 |
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"That
these two lads have received little îr nî publicity is not at all the
most remarkable aspect of their feat. Far more remarkable is that, prior
to setting out, they had never rowed at sea. Indeed, they had hardly
rowed at all — only 30 hours’ practice în the Thames. And there is still the fact that they broke by two hours the Atlantic rowing record"... |
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Excerpts from the log of 'Against All Odds !' |
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| "Many have said that rowing an ocean is 90% mental and 10% physical. After having done it we would probably increase the mental importance. Will, desire, passion and attitude is what gets you to the other side; and the body will follow..." | |
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human-powered odyssey around the Globe - a multi-year expedition by bike, by boat and on foot, to summit the tallest peaks on six of the world's continents and to row across the oceans |
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Mick Dawson (2004) |
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As Dawson found out, one of the interesting aspects of ocean rowing is the close proximity to “the life aquatic.” In the following excerpt from Mick Dawson’s upcoming book about the 2004 row, he recounts a close encounter with some hungry visitors... |
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Roger Montandon (1996) |
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Rob Hamill (March 6th 2005) |
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Some thoughts on "What it takes to put together an Ocean Rowing campaign" |
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Log of Don Allum (1987) |
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| This is an exact copy of Don Allum's diary of the fourth voyage of the rowing boat QE3 it was written between 21 June and 5 September 1987. The voyage started at St. John's Newfoundland and ended at Dooagh Achill Island, Ireland. | |
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Interview with Geoff Allum (2003) |
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| ...the ocean is there for all of us, it is free, it is one of our last freedoms. | |
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Derek King (1974) |
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Extracts from the
book 'Small Boat Against the Sea' by Derek King and Peter Bird. Press articles. |
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Oliver Hicks (2005) |
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Chapter for the Almanac of Adventures. France, October 2007. By Kenneth F.Crutchlow. |
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| Both Mark and Martin are Captains in the Army. They were given a year off for sabbatical from the Army to train and complete their row in the Atlantic Challenge (Oct, 1997). | |
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A Hundred and One Atlantic Nights (1997 - 1998) |
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| Story of Jan Meek and Daniel Byles as told to Janet Matthews for CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE PARENT'S SOUL | |
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Log of Stein Hoff (2002) |
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Log of Anne Quemere (2002 - 2003) |
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Log of Ray and Jenny Jardin (2002) |
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Log of Martin Wood (2003) |
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Log of Team Uppsala (2001) |
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Indian Ocean 2002 - Unexpected Challenge - log of Simon Chalk and Bill Greaves |
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The story of the trans-oceanic record rowing attempt of 'Atlantic Endeavour' (1998) |
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