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                                 Last update April 07 2008

Atlantic E-W double completed


 Completed - 124 Incomplete - 19

Atlantic E-W double incomplete


 

Historic Oceanrows -

 

Modern Day Oceanrows -  

 

NO

FIRST
NAME

 

SURNAME

COUNTRY

BOAT

MILES

DEPART

ARRIVAL

DAYS

FROM TO
IND RACE

1

  Don Allum

GB

QE3

2730

January 12 1971

March 26 1971

74

Las Palmas
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Geoff Allum

2

  Derek King

GB

Britannia II

3303

March 24 1974

August 10 1974

103

Gibraltar via Barbate
Spain & Casablanca
St Lucia
West Indies
Peter Bird

3

  Curtis Saville

USA

Excalibur

2800

March 18 1981

June 10 1981

89

Casablanca
Morocco
via Hierro
Canary Islands
English Harbour  Antigua
West Indies
Kathleen Saville
 

4

  Sean Crowley

GB

In Finnegans Wake

2676

January 30 1986

April 14 1986

73

Pasito Blanco
Gran Canaries
Georgetown Guyana
Mike Nestor

 

5 Rob Hamill

New Zealand

Kiwi Challenge

2753

October 12 1997

November 22 1997

41 days
2 hours
55 min

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Phil Stubbs
 

6

 

Pascal Blond

France

Atlantik Challenge

2906

October 12 1997

November 30 1997

49d 8hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Joseph Le Guen
 

7

 

David Rice

GB

Hannah Snell

2931

October 12 1997

December 06 1997

55d 2hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Nadia Rice
 

8

 

Ian Blandin

GB

Spirit of Jersey

2933

October 12 1997

December 08 1997

57d 12hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Rob Cassin
 

9

 

Eamonn Kavanagh

Ireland

Christina

2847

October 12 1997

December 09 1997

58d 4hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Peter Kavanagh

 

10 Steve Issacs

GB

Toc H Phoenix

2875

October 12 1997

December 09 1997

58d 12hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Mark Stubbs

 

11 Peter Hogden

GB

Hospiscare

2939

October 12 1997

December 09 1997

58d 13hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Neil Hitt

 

12 John Searson

GB

Commodore Shipping

3046

October 12 1997

December 11 1997

59d 12hr
line of longitude

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Carl Clinton

--

--

--

Carl Clinton airlifted off after 7 days due to back injury

 

13 Wayne Callahan

GB

Ryvita

2893

October 12 1997

December 11 1997

60d 5hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Tim Welford

 

14 Steven Lee

GB

Kielder Atlantic Warrior

2829

October 12 1997

December 12 1997

61d 2hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
John Bryant

 

15 Danniel Innes

GB

Golden Fleece

2861

October 12 1997

December 12 1997

61d 3 hr
line of longitude

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Peter Lowe

 

16 Graham Walters

GB

George Geary

2948

October 12 1997

December 13 1997

62d 4hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Keith Mason-Moore

 

17 Duncan Nicoll

GB

Mt Gay Rum Runner

2980

October 12 1997

December 14 1997

63d 0hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Jock Wishart

 

18 Andrew Watson

GB

Bitzer

2970

October 12 1997

December 15 1997

64d 3hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Russell Reid

 

19 Simon Chalk

GB

Cellnet Atlantic Challenger

3012

October 12 1997

December 15 1997

64d 5hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
George Rock

 

20 John Van Katwyck

GB

Endeavour

3016

October 12 1997

December 15 1997

64d 7hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Geoff Gavey

 

21 Jim Shekdar

GB

Boatcom Waverider

~3000

October 12 1997

December 20 1997

64d 18hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Dave Jackson

 

22 Michael Elliot

GB

Cornish Challenger

2883

October 12 1997

December 17 1997

66d 5hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Louis Hunkin

 

23 Charles Street

GB

Sam Deacon

2878

October 12 1997

December 17 1997

67d 2hr
line of longitude

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Roger Gould

 

24 David Immelman

South Africa

Key Challenger
started as double

2861

October 12 1997

December 18 1997

66d14hr
line of longitude

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
David Mossman

--

--

--

David Mossman picked up after 5 days due to injury

 

25 Stein Hoff

Norway

Star Atlantic

2938

October 12 1997

December 20 1997

69d 6hr

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Arvid Bentsen

 

26 Martin Bellamy

GB

Salamanca

2861

October 12 1997

December 25 1997

73d 10hr
line of longitude

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Mark Mortimer

 

27 Isabel Fraser

GB

Stylus Mistral Endeavour

3058

October 12 1997

January 04 1998

84d 1hr
line of longitude

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Richard Duckworth

 

28 Jan Meek

GB

Carpe Diem

3044

October 12 1997

January 21 1998

100d18hr
line of longitude

Los Gigantes
Tenerife Canary Islands
Barbados
West Indies
Daniel Byles
  29 Matt Goodman

New Zealand

Telecom 
Challenge 1

~3000

October 7 2001

November 18 2001

42 days
2h 16min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Steve  Westlake
  30 Paul McCarthy

Australia

Freedom

~3000

October 7 2001

November 21 2001

45 days
9h 20min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Patrick Weinrauch
  31 Alain Lewuillon

Belgium

Win.Belgium

~3000

October 7 2001

November 25 2001

49 days
4h 40min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Bruno Lewuillon
  32 Stephanie Brown

New Zealand

Telecom 
Challenge 25

~3000

October 7 2001

November 26 2001

50 days
7h 00min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Jude Ellis
  33 Andrew Chapple

GB

Comship.com

~3000

October 7 2001

November 27 2001

50 days
15h 12min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Ian Anderson
  34 Will  Mason

GB

Bright Spark

~3000

October 7 2001

November 27 2001

50 days
16h 22min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Tim Thurnham
  35 Pascal Hanssen

Belgium

Bruxelles-
Challenge

~3000

October 7 2001

December 1 2001

55 days
13h 33min

Los Gigantes,
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Serge van Cleve
  36 Christian Havrehed Denmark
/ China
Yantu

~3000

October 7 2001

December 3 2001

56 days
15h 52min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Sun Haibin
  37 Richard White GB DLE GlobalStar

~3000

October 7 2001

December 3 2001

56 days
16h 16min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Ian Roots
  38 Rory Shannon GB Atlantic Warrior

~3000

October 7 2001

December 3 2001

57 days
3h 20min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Alex Wilson
  39 John  Zeigler USA American Star

~3000

October 7 2001

December 4 2001

58 days
3h 54min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Tom Mailhot
  40 Istvan Hajdu Hungary/GB UniS Voyager

~3000

October 7 2001

December 4 2001

58 days
9h 50min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Simon Walpole
  41 Pierre Deroi France Esprit PME

~3000

October 7 2001

December 5 2001

59 days
1h 11min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Jean Jacques Gautier
  42 Scott Gilchrist GB Carphone Warehouse

~3000

October 7 2001

December 6 2001

60 days
14h 09min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Peter Moore
  43 Pedro Ripol Spain Project Martha 2

~3000

October 7 2001

December 8 2001

61 day
15h 29min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Francisco Korff
  44 Kerry Blandin GB Blandin 
Spirit of Jersey

~3000

October 7 2001

December 8 2001

62 days
5h 42min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Paul Perchard
  45 Tim Humfrey GB Keltec Challenger

~3000

October 7 2001

December 9 2001

63 days
3h 26min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Jo Lumsdon
  46 Dominic Marsh GB Onward Atlantic

~3000

October 7 2001

December 9 2001

63 days
5h 52min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Gary Fooks
  47 Julian McHardy GB McLlaid

~3000

October 7 2001

December 10 2001

63 days
16h 47min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Mark Williams
  48 Dominic Comonte GB Team Nutri-Grain

~3000

October 7 2001

December 10 2001

64 days
5h 13min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Crispin Comonte
  49 Benjamin Marty France La Gironde

~3000

October 7 2001

December 10 2001

64 days
12h 31min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Olivier Villian
  50 Alistair Smee GB Linda

~3000

October 7 2001

December 15 2001

69 days
13h 45min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Chris Marett
  51 Steve Dawson GB Mrs D

~3000

October 7 2001

December 16 2001

70 days
9h 12min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Mick Dawson
  52 Dugald Macdonald South Africa/ Australia Brunetto

~3000

October 7 2001

December 18 2001

71 day
18h 30min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
David Mitchell
  53 Denis Bribosia Belgium
/ France
Embarquons les 
Droits de l'Homme

~3000

October 7 2001

December 18 2001

72 days
4h 08min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Gregory Loret
  54 Graham Walters GB George Geary

~3000

October 7 2001

December 24 2001

77 days
21h 02min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Michael Ryan
  55 Damian West GB 43º West

~3000

October 7 2001

December 26 2001

79  days
21h 41min

Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Canaries, Spain
Port St. Charles,
Barbados
Alex Hinton
  56 Xabier Agote Spain Euskadi

60

October 7  2001

October 10
 2001

3 days Playa San Juan
Tenerife, Spain
El Hierro, Spain
Urko Mendiburu ~3000 October 22 2001