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Colin is attempting to be the first
to circumnavigate the planet by human power. He has completed
half the expedition and together with Julie are rowing across the Atlantic
and Caribbean from Portugal to
Limon, Costa Rica
onboard "Ondine" (formerly
"DLE GlobalwStar")
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Left Lisbon,
Portugal
on September
23, 2005
Arrived to St
Lucia on January 19, 2006 at 20:00GMT (4pm local time)
Left St Lucia on
February 1, 2006 at 14:00GMT (10am local time)
Arrived in
Limon, Costa Rica on February 24, 2006 at 5:00GMT ( 11am
local time) |
Leven Sinclair
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is on route across the
Atlantic E-W solo from Rota, Spain, to
Port of Spain, Trinidad - the route, taken
by Columbus on his third voyage in 1498. |
Left Cadiz on
August 14th 2005 at 9:02GMT. Arrived to Rota after 5 days 2h
13min.
Left Rota Marina
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August 26, 2005
at 07:37GMT ( 09:37 local time) |
Due to
technical problems with the equipment and the boat, Leven
made a stop-over at Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Canaries on October
9th at 11:30pm ( after 44 days 3h 53min at sea)
Left Santa Cruz de Tenerife on November 14th at 13:00GMT |
Leven has made it !!!
At 13:55GMT January
27th 2006 Leven rowed into Rockly Bay in Tobago
and tied his boat up to the pier of Scarborough Port. |
Tim Harvey
(Canada) &
Erden Eruç
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has rowed
the
Indian Ocean E-W from Cocos (Keeling)
Islands, Australia to Mahé, Seychelles onboard "Ukraine", after
his son
Theodore Rezvoy had to abandon his attempt and
stop at Cocos islands. |
Left Cocos
(Keeling) Islands on
September
13th 2005, 06:30GMT (13:00 local time)
Due to unfavourable SW winds, that would drive him away from
the Seychelles, Pavel took tow within the view of land (Mahe
Island) and with that
completed the row on
November 9th 2005, at 11:20GMT
(15:20 local time). |
Keith "Taff" Oliver &
Jerry Rogers (GB) |
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left La Gomera
November 3rd 2005 to row the Atlantic E - W in the boat
"Bright Spark". They hope to arrive in Antigua 70 days
later, to become one of a very small number of oarsmen to row
the Atlantic, and the oldest pair (combined age of 112 years) to
successfully row an ocean. |
Left San Sebastian, La Gomera
on November 3rd 2005 at 16:32GMT
Row stopped on November 12th 2005. At noon the team
activated Argos beacon due to equipment failure. Rescued. |
Emmanuel Coindre
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were going to row from
Lisbon, Portugal to
Limon, Costa Rica onboard "Around-n-Over Boat" (formerly Calderdale/Kaos). |
Left Lisbon
on October 16th 2005 at 13:08GMT
with the high tide
from
the
Doca de Belém by the Monument to the Descobrimentos
(Discoveries).
Stopped at Cascais
due to
head South,
West and NW winds
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has rowed across the Atlantic
W-E onboard "Miss Olive" from Atlantic Highlands, NJ,
USA. Oliver is the youngest rower (23) to row
any ocean solo. (Until now the youngest solo oceanrower was Samson
Knight, who at the start was 40 days older than Oliver) |
Departed on May 27 2005 at 14:35GMT (10.35EDT)
On September 28 2005 at
12:43GMT
(13:43BST)
Oliver landed on
Porthcressa Beach of St
Mary's, Isles of Scilly |
Theodore
Rezvoy
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is
attempting to row Indian ocean East-West
in his boat "Ukraine" from
Carnarvon (West Australia).
Stopped at Cocos
(Keeling) Islands on August 23, 2005 |
Departed on
August 3 2005 at 4:20GMT (12:20 local time)
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stopped at Cocos
(Keeling) Islands on August 23, 2005 due to shoulder injur |
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started to row the
Atlantic E-W solo from Cadiz, Spain, and arriving in
Port of Spain, Trinidad approx.120 days later - the route, taken
by Columbus on his third voyage in 1498. |
Left Cadiz on
August 14th 2005 at 9:02GMT ( 11:02 local time)
Aug 19
2005. Due to problem with some equipment and unfavourable
weather conditions Leven decided to return for repairs. He
will restart as soon as the problem is solved and weather
permits |
Gijs
Groeneveld, Robert Hoeve,
Jaap Koomen, Maarten Staarink
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started their
challenge aboard "Vopak Victory" from Atlantic
Highlands, NJ, USA.
Departed on
May 27 2005 at 14:30GMT (10.30EDT) |
On
July 27
2005, 06:49 GMT after 60 days 16h 19min at sea the
team "Vopak Victory" crossed the longitude of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse
and became the first Four to row the Atlantic from the USA
to Europe |
On July 31st at 7.30 GMT
the crew left Falmouth UK headed for Rotterdam, their home
port. |
Saturday 6th
August 2005 at
13:45GMT
(15:45 CET)
after more than two
months of rowing the Vopak Victory and it’s proud crew
returned to Veerhaven, Rotterdam to set foot on Dutch Soil for the
first time again! |
George Rock , Robert Munslow, Nigel Morris and Steve Dawson
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Sunday July 10th at
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"Naturally Best"
crossed the official finishing line of Bishop's Rock longitude
and completed their crossing of the Atlantic in 39 days
22hours 10min 30sec, and set a record time
for crossing the Atlantic from Canada to Europe for teams of Four. |
From Mick
Dawson: "In celebration all four went swimming and after
then they asked for porridge that George made for them. Weather has set in nicely and sea
is amazingly calm."
In the afternoon Scilly Isles Fishing Vessel Maurader
assisted 'Naturally Best' with a tow heading for
St Marys, Isles of Scilly. |
"Naturally Best"
became the
first Four to row the Atlantic W - E,
the first crew to row the Atlantic from Canada to Europe. |
Departed
from St John’s, Newfoundland on May
31 2005
at 10:00GMT (07.30 local time) |
July 07 2005. Scotland.
Tom McClean
called ORS HQ today and asked that following be relayed
to Vivaldi Atlantic4 crew. |
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‘Congratulations to Steve, Bob, Nigel and George!
Well done, it is not an easy job for one guy or for four
guys, it takes tenacity, courage and hard work to row an
ocean.
Once again best of luck from Tom McClean!"
( record holder for solo crossing :
1987 - 55
days) |
William de Laszlo, Ben Jesty,
James Bastin, William Turnage (GB) |
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started
a non-stop row circumnavigation of Great Britain (GB) (2110
miles) in a boat originally designed for oceanrowing, that will
be attempted for the first time ever by a 4 man crew, organised
and led by the Grenadier Guards |
Row
started on June 7th 2005 at 13:00GMT from Tower Bridge.
Finished at Tower Bridge on July 4th at 10:14GMT !!! |
Read an Extract from the book 'Small
Boat Against The Sea' by Derek King and Peter Bird
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Oceanrower
and yachtsman
Fedor Konyukhov
(Russia) left Falmouth November 24th 2004 at 10:25 GMT on board his
85foot maxi yacht “Trading Network Aliye Parusa” (Scarlet Sails) in
attempt to sail
solo around the world
(stopped at Tasmania for repairs)
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On
June 8 2005
at 08:45GMT
maxi yacht
“Trading Network Aliye Parusa” sailed into the Falmouth Bay
and after 188days 7 h 49min accomplished its
round-the-world voyage.
ORS congratulates Fedor on his tremendous achievement !!!
See the chart>>> |
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is rowing the Atlantic solo in his
boat "Womble" (formerly "Moose on the Move") from East to West,
from La Gomera to Antigua, English Harbour. Departed
at 10:10GMT January 21 2005
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May 17th 2005 at
19:30GMT Tiny Little was towed to Shirley Heights by Chris
Harris onboard Sea Terror
( former RNLI lifeboat) and then rowed into English Harbour. Row
finished at Nelson's Dockyard.
"The welcome was absolutely fantastic !!!", said Tiny.
ORS
congratulates ocean rower Tiny Little on completing his row
across the Atlantic !!! |
twin-brothers, who have covered 80.000 km around the
world (5 continents) on their motorcycles, are attempting to
row the Indian ocean from Australia to Africa (Dar Es
Salaam, Tanzania) in their boat "Rus", ancient for 'Russia'
(formerly "Linda") |
Row started from
Carnarvon, WA at 1:20GMT April 22nd 2005. |
On May 16 2005
at 01:15GMT the twins on board RUS have activated their 406
EPIRB
11:11GMT: Euro
Viking advises that they retrieved
both rowers and their vessel !!! |
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On March 26 at
18:26GMT (8:56 local time) Maud has arrived to Hiva 'Oa.
Congratulations to the first woman to row in the Pacific
solo from Peru to Marquesas !!! |
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set out from a rowing club in Lima's
port, Callao, "as the sun was setting over the calm ocean" -
at 22:15GMT (17:15 local time) January 12th
2005, to row solo from Peru to
French Polynesia,
mid-Pacific, to follow the route of Norwegian explorer
Thor Heyerdahl's epic 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition.
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Gerard d'ABOVILLE.
Paris, March 26 2005
President of the
Higher Council of the Pleasure Sailing and the Water
Sports,
Founding Trustee of the Ocean Rowing Society:
Bravo Maud !
You
have just written a great and beautiful page in the
French History of ocean rowing, until now I felt
myself a little lonely on the big Pacific!
Good return to land and among all those who missed
you and whom you missed, enjoy the life and the
spring which is landing here at the same time as
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Gerard |
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with good weather forecast started
at 08:00 GMT on Monday November
15th 2004 from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to row the
Atlantic ocean E-W to the West Indies (Guadeloupe).
Half-way point passed December 13th 2004 |
Arrived to Guadeloupe on Jan 22 2005 at 14:12GMT. |
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