British women rowing across Pacific Ocean reach halfway point
"They've seen nothing on the ocean in the way of boats, nobody," Mr Payne told BBC Radio Humberside.The pair, who call their team Seas the Day, faced a "race against time" to cross the ocean before the start of cyclone season after their rudder broke during an initial attempt at the beginning of April.They had to be rescued about 350 miles from the coast of Lima and towed back to shore. A Norfolk-based boat builder then worked around the clock to make a replacement rudder.Miss Payne, from Market Weighton, started rowing when she was at university in Glasgow and completed a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 2023.She met Miss Rowe in Antigua at the finish line of the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, in February of that year.
Mr Payne said the Pacific challenge had taken three years to plan and there was a team of people in the UK supporting the two rowers."They've met the challenge incredibly well because they've had a lot of setbacks," he said."They obviously broke the rudder and had to come back, they've got electrical problems, they got water-maker problems so it's make do and mend."They'll get through it."The rowers are raising money for the Outward Bound Trust charity.Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
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