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February 7th-- Sector Sport Watches team member Elisabeth Hoff has left the Canary Islands attempting to become the first woman to row an ocean solo. She will be at sea an estimated 90 days and row over 3000 miles. Throughout the Ocean Rowing Society will be tracking and mapping Elisabeth's progress. |
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LOS GIGANTES, TENERIFE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1999. ELISABETH HOFF, the British-Norwegian member of the SECTOR NO LIMITS team, who aims to be the first woman to row single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean, left Los Gigantes at 8am GMT today. (departure photo by Daniel Forster) Ocean Rowing Society members may remember the Hoff name as her father Stein Hoff rowed with his partner Arvid Bentsen during the Atlantic Challenge rowing race in the fall of 1997. Elisabeth is being sponsored by Sector Sport Watches. As with the two previous attempts of woman attempting the first solo row of an ocean (Peggy Bouchet from France and Tori Murden from Louisville, Kentucky, USA) the Ocean Rowing Society will be tracking Elisabeth's daily progress on our website. |
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Elisabeth's Diary (occasional e-mails from sea...) |
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| Contact Elisabeth and send
her words of encouragement at sea via e-mail... ELISABETH HOFF |
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| What's it like out there for Elisabeth? Read the daily journals of her father Stein Hoff and Arvid Bentsen onboard the Star Atlantic in the Atlantic Challenge Race Oct,12,-Dec,20,1997... (click here) | ||
