OCEAN ROWING SOCIETY INT. ARCHIVE
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Arrivals in 2017:
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Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson & Charlie Smith

Ralph Tiujn, Niall Bates, Clement Mas & Colin Blears

Ted Welman & Jack Faulkner

Malcolm Skelton

Braam  Malherbe & Wayne Robertson

 Callum McDonald

Joseph Gagnon & Brian Conville

Leo & Dan Foster, Oli Buck, Luke Taster
 

Angus Collins,  Laura Try , Lesley Foden

Team Polar Row    (leg1)   (leg2)

Sören Kjellkvist & Glenn Mattsing

Duncan Tebb , Rhys Deane, Jeremy Webb &  Nigel Le Cassick

 Andy Hodson

Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson

Ruihan Yu

 Ruihan Yu (China)

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made an attempt to row across the Pacific E-W solo, from the USA to China.

 Duncan Tebb (Australia), Rhys Deane, Jeremy Webb &  Nigel Le Cassick  (all UK) 

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-Team of Four Island Voyagers have completed the Row Around the UK from Southampton to Southampton on board All Relative
 

   Sören Kjellkvist & Glenn Mattsing (Sweden)

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have completed their row from Norway to archipelago Svalbard, from Ersfjordbotn, Norway to Barentsburg,  on board ocean rowboat Albedo,                                                                       

 Fiann Paul (IS),  Tathagata Roy (IN),  Jeff Willis (UK),
Carlo Facchino (USA), Tor Wigum (NOR)

512 miles (445 nm)(824 km)
Average speed - 2.557 Knots

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Team of Five have completed their row from Tromso, mainland Norway to Longyearbyen, Svalbard 
 

Click here to see all the records of the Polar Row I >>>

NOMAN Row to End HPV

  Angus Collins (skipper), Laura Try , Lesley Foden (all UK)
  + other rowers joining   for 1 – 3 legs each

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Finished their row in Scarborough at 8:00GMT, July 26, 2017

  Leo & Dan Foster, Oli Buck, Luke Taster (all UK)

  Joseph Gagnon(CAN) & Brian Conville (Ireland)

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made an attempt to row the North Atlantic W-E from Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland on board Évelyne. When successful, they would become the first Pair to row the Atlantic W-E from Canada and the First Modern Days Pair  to row the Atlantic W-E to Ireland (The First Historic Pair to row to Ireland were  John Ridgway & Chay Blyth. 1966). They as well would become the Youngest Pair , and Joseph - the youngest male to row the Atlantic in this direction

A year later Joseph will be rowing across the North Atlantic W-E from Canada to France solo, Summer 2018

Left St.John's, Newfoundland on 13 June 2017 at 12:00UTC

At approx. 10:30am on July 21, 2017 IRCG received a distress signal from the boat of the rowers, whose boat had capsized.
Early afternoon both rowers  were  airlifted and brought to a hospital 
For details >>>
 

  Callum McDonald   (UK)

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undertook an attempt to row solo Around GB clockwise non-stop to become the first person to row  this route solo.
                                   Departed from Whitehaven Harbour at 14:00MT (15:00BST) on May 26,  2017

Returned to land on May 30,  2017

  Braam  Malherbe & Wayne Robertson  (SA)

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have completed their row across the South Atlantic Ocean on board Mhondoro from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro .

   Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson (NZ) & Charlie Smith (GB)

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Grant is undertaking a Human Powered expedition "Rowing Home" -  from his current home in Singapore to his birthplace in Taranaki New Zealand, which  includes rowing from Singapore to Darwin (2600 miles), cycling from Darwin to Sydney and rowing across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand (1300 miles). on board his ocean rowboat Simpson's Donkey

UK-born Singapore-based Charlie Smith have joined Grant in rowing from Singapore to Darwin, Australia.

   Mike Burton (UK) 

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Rowed the Atlantic E-W in pairs with Tom Salt (2013/14),  has completed the Atlantic E-W solo  row from Gran Canaria to Antigua on board Storm Petrel built by Global Boat works.

   Graham Walters (UK)

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made an attempt to row the Atlantic E-W for the fifth time (the third time solo) on board a historic boat of Sidney Genders Khaggavisana (the first and only row from mainland Britain to Miami, USA.1969) to become the oldest person (69) to row any ocean solo and the only one to row the Atlantic E-W solo three times.
 

   Martin Cruickshank (Croatia) & Fenella McAlister (UK)

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In 2015 undertook an attempt to row the Atlantic E-W from Sagres, Portugal to Barbados on board Fifty-Fifty. Due to adverse weather made a stop on the Canaries. In 2016 resumed their row across the Atlantic E-W from Gran Canaria 
When successful they would become the first team of brother & sister,  and Martin - the first Croatian to row an ocean.

   József  Orha (Hungary)

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has rowed a leg of the Atlantic E-W solo from Lagos, Portugal to Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, on his way to Antigua  on board a custom-built 6.9 m long boat Spartan. The boat was built by Hungarian ocean rower and creator of Fire Ant - Gábor Rakonczay

  Romuald Koperski (Poland)

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has completed his row across the Atlantic E-W solo from the Canaries to the Caribbean Islands on board Pianist. This row was planned to be followed by a future row across the Pacific Ocean W-E, from Japan to the North American coast.