a month agoRarely, for 40 days they cross the Atlantic with the rowboat
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)A new record is set on rowboats. A biology professor from Cincinnati arrived on August 4th on the British coast of St. Mary Isles of Sicily, describing the entire Atlantic Ocean in solitude and with a rowboat. His name is Rice Carlson, and he did it in less than [...]
His name is Rice Carlson, and he accomplished this for less than 40 days, improving the previous record by nearly two weeks (53 days, 8 hours, 26 minutes).
This new record is already expected to be formalised by Ocean Rowing Society. Rice Carlson was launched 27 June from the area of Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, the nearest area to Europe, thus describing within 40 days a distance of 2,000 miles.
