51 days 16 hours 42 minutes
New World Record set on 23 July in Virgin GB Row 2010 |
TeamsThe race consists of two teams, both with 4 team members but with very different boats: The Women: The SeaGals, are an all-female crew, including a 23-year-old Royal Navy nurse currently awaiting posting to Afghanistan, a film maker, a wheelchair-bound ex-Marine grandmother, and an IT support manager. The Seagals are rowing in a 24-foot-long single hull boat, Go Commando. Profiles of the Girls Team 'The Seagals' » The Men: The Misfits, an all-male crew, led by experienced ocean rower Olly Hicks, includes a Falklands veteran, a wild boar breeder and a novice competitive rower. The men are rowing the trimaran Orca. Profiles of the Boys Team 'The Misfits' » The crews are not allowed to receive any outside assistance, or pit-stop in ports. They will carry all their food for the journey and use a special on-board water maker that turns sea into drinking water. The girls team are aboard 'Go Commando', a boat similar to the one which set the current world record in 2005. The boys team 'The Misfits' are rowing in a radically different style of boat, the trimaran 'Orca' which has recently completed a transatlantic row. The 2005 GB Row TeamThis is the 2005 team who broke the World Record:
The 2005 GB Row Challenge was undertaken by a four man team led by William de Laszlo. Will is now President of the Anglo American Boat Club who are
the organisers of the 2010 event. |
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