Re: [Paddlewise] WARD EVENS ATLANTIC ROWING CHALLENGE

The Atlantic Rowing Challenge is a one-design race. Tom Mailhot and 
John Zeigler <http://usrowboys.com/> have built two of the boats. 
Actually they hired someone to build the first one and he botched the 
job so Tom and John built the second one themselves. They have been 
rowing the boat in several local races this year as training and for 
publicity. They have had difficulty raising money to fit out the boat 
completely. I hope they got everything done before they sent the boat 
to Tenerife about a month ago...

The race is specifically planned to occur at the tail end of 
hurricane season in the hopes that they will get favorable winds. I 
hope they aren't too favorable.
Nick


At 6:14 PM -0400 9/27/01, kirk olsen wrote:
>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
>
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