August 2012: In an attempt to row all Great Lakes of North America Tom Butscher (69) who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 2011 on board of Big Blue will row from Detroit, Michigan the length of Lake Eirie to near Buffalo NY and on to Lake Ontario via the Welland Canal  to Toronto Ontario where he lives. Distance 640 km 

June 15, 2012: Founder and Coach of Recovery on Water, Jenn Gibbons started her row along the entire 1,500 mile perimeter of Lake Michigan in her ocean rowboat Liv. This is a part of her preparation for Trans-Atlantic row that is planned for 2013
Follow Jenn's progress >>>  and read her blog >>>  
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March 18, 2011: In the next 12 -18 months British ocean rowers Ben Thackwray and Ian Couch will be heading out to high altitude mountains, several ice fields, dry deserts and an ocean ... They drew together their experiences in a range of environments and put them together in a single Global Adventure Series >>>

2012: Ocean rower Peter van Kets (South Africa) has set his sights on circumnavigating the Southern Hemisphere along the Tropic of Capricorn under human power. For details >>>   Website >>>
 

Dec 2012: oceanrower Justin Coleman in team with James Mouland intend to convert an ocean rowboat into an ocean pedal boat and pedal from Gran Canaria to Barbados. Departure is planned for December 2012. >>> 
Press article >>> 30.05.12

January 2013: ocean rowers Margaret Bowling (Australia) and Tara Remington (NZ), in team with Linda Beilharz (Australia),  and Cathy O'Dowd (SA) will attempt the Ultimate Trilogy of exploration and adventure - a ski traverse of the north Patagonian icecap, ocean row up the Chilean coast and Aconcagua summit, all back to back with minimal support
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2013: oceanrower Ben Fogle is planning to swim the Atlantic Ocean. Having rowed E to W, he will complete the circle by swimming from America West to East back home to Cornwall. For details >>> 
Press article >>> 23.05.12

2014: Ocean rowers John Haskell (UK) and Trond Erichsen (Norway) - Atlantic E-W 2011-12, - are planning to track the Antarctica; John bids to become one of the few to hoist the Welsh flag at the South Pole. >>>

June 15 - June 22 2012: ocean rower Chris Cuddihy, teamed with his son Ryan Cuddihy and adventurer Aaron Williamson,  completed a world's first non-stop unsupported row around Long Island, NY in 7 days 5,5 hours .  For updates >>>

It's interesting

On 4 June 1923 Cecil Foster, a master marine from Barry, Wales, and team of 33 British sailors in two life-boats escaped from a shipwreck of the Hain Line steamer Trevessa, (she was heading from Fremantle, WA and was already 1700 miles from shore), and survived  a 23-day lifeboat ordeal, until coming ashore on Rodriguez and Mauritius Islands. 
30 June, the anniversary of the second boat's landing at Bel-Ombre, is still a national holiday in Mauritius. Originally it was known as Trevessa Day, but more recently it's been broadened out to become Seafarers' Day                  For details >>>

Expedition cancelled

August 2011: oceanrower Ralph Tuijn (NL) will add more sea miles to his Atlantic and Pacific crossings by rowing in team with Pieter Smit non-stop from Amsterdam to Svalbard, aka Spitzbergen (the northernmost inhabited island in the world). The route of 2890km/1796 miles as the crow flies is crossing the northern part of the Atlantic and ending in the Arctic Ocean, so the working title of the expedition is: “80 Degrees North Challenge”. It will be the first time that an ocean rowboat is going that far north (record of Smurgis is 77˚ 44' N) and the second time that it reaches the Arctic ocean.
Note: Expedition website to be launched in Dutch and English

June 18th, 2011: ocean rowers Katie Spotz (USA, Atlantic E-W Trades II, 2010) and Sam Williams (GB, Atlantic E-W, 2008)  set out in Race Across America or "RAAM", a 3,000 mile, non-stop bike race that started in Oceanside, CA. and ends in Manassas, VA. and  features more than 250 racers from 15 countries. Their goal is to complete the race in 8 days.>>>

June 25th 2011: ocean rower Chris Cuddihy (USA) is once again leading a crew in an attempt to row non-stop around Long Island to raise money for veterans >>> 

June 15th, 2011: Rowers Chris Walters, Brian Fletcher, Tony Short and Elliot Dale, who are going to row the Atlantic E-W in December, have taken on the Channel in a bid to forge links with a French town, as part of the Lyme Regis/Barfleur twinning initiative. The Corinthians’ loaned ocean rowboat Oyster Shack has been used for the Barfleur run. >>>