You can have exclusive interviews with the captain Guin Batten (details below) whilst they are on their last leg of the journey, and also with the world record holder, Charlie Pitcher, manager of their on-shore team.
Weather conditions permitting, their Rannoch Women’s Challenge boat, Liberty, is expected to arrive in Falmouth on or around Wednesday July 27th.
There's a small welcoming flotilla of family and friends currently being organised.
It's a genuinely inspiring crew ranging from 49 year old Guin Batten, who won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, through to 20 year old oceanographer university student Molly Brown, who will become the youngest woman to have rowed the Atlantic. The rest of the crew comprises Alex Holt, a water-ski and snow ski instructor; Gilly Mara, one of the fastest ultra kayakers in the UK, (and in 2002 broke vertebrae and pelvis in a 200ft climbing fall), and Mary Sutherland, an accomplished offshore sailor and racer, with several Fastnet and Atlantic crossings under her belt.
They are all adventurers seeking to push themselves through this extraordinary challenge. “We want to inspire women to try and do things they thought were beyond them. Why? Because you can.”
They’re supported on the mainland by many friends and family, and assisted by Charlie Pitcher, whose company Rannoch Adventures, built and supplied Liberty, their vessel. Charlie is the current world record holder for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, having rowed it in 35 days in 2013 – East to West.
They’re exploits are updated regularly on Facebook https://www.facebook.
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