Damn, that is a lot of rowing

[minendo]

Two Purdue students already have their Christmas lists ready to go for 2005.

Sarah Kessans and Emily Kohl, both members of the Purdue Crew Team, plan on spending the 2005 Christmas season in sunny Barbados. Only they will have to row 2,900 nautical miles in fewer than 60 days to get there.

Two months ago, Kessans, junior in the School of Agriculture and Kohl, senior in the School of Liberal Arts, registered to compete in the Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race.

This race, which will begin in October of 2005, will have 30 teams traveling across the Atlantic Ocean, a distance of 2,900 nautical miles. They will depart from Tenerife, located in the Canary Islands, and row to Barbados, located in the West Indies.

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[kami333]

wow, and to think that I'm usually dead after 5k/2k.

Openwater rowing is the devil, I've only tried it once for about an hour but I don't think I moved for than a couple hundred meters, between the waves and crappy set and all that.

Any other rowers here?

 

[FearoftheNight]

Heh. 6k tests hurt.

 

[monk3y]

Wow that's just ridiculous... I used to row in High School.

 

[silverpig]

I used to as well. Tests are the devil.

 

[minendo]

Is 58 miles per day feasible in the Atlantic? (58 miles per day based on their 50 day goal.)

 

[K1052]

So about 2.4 average mph to make it in their timeframe, sounds doable. I suppose it would depend heavily on the weather and currents.

Rowing nearly three thousand miles through the middle of the Atlantic in a large piece of plywood, those girls have bigger balls than I do.