At 05:18 PM 9/27/01 -0400, Gypsykayak_at_aol.com wrote: >WARD EVENS ATLANTIC ROWING CHALLENGE > >As of Sunday Oct 7th 36 double handed teams representing 11 countries will >set off from Tenerife to Barbados ... 2,900 miles across the Atlantic for the >world's only ocean rowing race! > >www.wear.co.uk or >www.challengebusiness.com. The 2 rowing the American entry are both paddlers who fairly recently took up rowing, maybe 3 years ago. Tom Mailhot is sea kayaker. He was with the owner of feathercraft for his paddle around Cape Horn. Tom also did a stint paddling a triple in Alaska, I think with project sea wolf. Ron Zeigler is a former canoe racer. I don't believe they had met each other before deciding to do the rowing race. I believe the American Star is the second iteration of the boat they are racing. According to a radio interview I heard (NPR's Only a Game) they determined the first American Star was unseaworthy. Better to learn that in practice, and not half way across the atlantic. Also in that story was the comment that no contact with the outside world is allowed during the race. Which I think is nutty. I would want weather reports... One of the American Stars (don't know if it was the original or the replacement) had 300 pounds of lead ballast. It also has a 24 foot "wingspan" for the oars, from blade tip to blade tip. kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 27 2001 - 15:22:36 PDT
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