Archive for the ‘Ocean Rowing’ Category

News for the coming Ocean rowing season.

World Ocean Rowing are please to confirm that we have 2 crews selected for the 2012 ocean rowing season. 1st up are the sub 30-day Atlantic crew! We will be setting out to sea at the very beginning of January 2012 attempting to become the first crew in the history of the sport to cross the Atlantic in less than 30 days! Dubbed Ocean rowing’s very own 4 minute mile the crew will aim to claim their place in the history books while raising the bar of whats is deemed possible.         

To keep up to date with all the latest information we now have a dedicated expedition site for each crew that goes to sea.  It contain’s all of the crew blog’s, tracking information, photos in one place.         

www.atlantic-odyssey.com

 June 2012 will see the Indian Ocean crew attempting the first continent to continent row across the whole of the Indian Ocean ! this ground breaking row will see a boat full of experienced rowers take on unknown water by a vessel of this type, to become the first humans to make the voyage.   

To get involved in sponsorship opportunity’s for this expedition contact : Info@worldoceanrowing.com

World Ocean rowing have started the search for the 2013 crews and places have already been filled see 2013 tab at top of home page! we have 2 crews up for selection. January 2013 Morocco to Barbados  with limited spaces available register your interest now. June 2013 New York to the UK  on the North Atlantic route, this will be a record attempt and will demand the very best of crew members to complete the challenge of this hardest of oceans to row! some of the crew spaces have also been filled and this looks like being a very capable crew already!         

See 2013 Expeditions tab above for details on how to apply for the crew spaces available!

     

Read the rest of this entry »