{"id":110982,"date":"2025-12-22T13:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/?p=110982"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:53:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:53:55","slug":"ocean-rowing-roundup-for-december-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/ocean-rowing-roundup-for-december-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Rowing Roundup for December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since our last roundup, the hurricane season has subsided, and action has resumed on the oceans. The annual World&#8217;s Toughest Row has started, and one independent soloist is attempting to cross the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Dave Bell is taking on what could be the longest ever single-stage row in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<h2>Atlantic Ocean<\/h2>\n<p><strong>World&#8217;s Toughest Row:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The 2025 World\u2019s Toughest Row, previously known as the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, started on December 14. Forty-three teams and 114 rowers pushed off from La Gomera in the Canary Islands. Over the coming weeks, they will battle 4,828km across the Atlantic to Antigua.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially, the race was scheduled to start on December 11, but after a Yellow Wind Warning was issued, the organizers had to delay. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In these conditions, we cannot deliver a safe, controlled departure,&#8221; they commented. &#8220;While some crews may be able to manage stronger weather, start decisions must be right for the entire fleet.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3dpqbbGaoqA?si=0KbdJdKY34UFyKry\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So far, the crews have faced the same challenges that every ocean rower confronts on their first few days. Seasickness has been common, and fatigue is setting in as they all adjust to the two-hour on, two-hour off schedule. Pulling away from the coastline in windy conditions has been a struggle. However, nearly all the updates from the crews have been positive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Four down to three<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four-person &#8220;Scotland the Wave&#8221; crew has had the hardest start. Yesterday, they were instructed to seek emergency help for one crew member who had been struggling with illness since the start of the row. Andrena McShane-Kerr has now been removed from the boat, and the three remaining women on the team have decided to continue as a trio. They are now doing their best to catch up with other boats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110985\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110985\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110985\" src=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-18-233706-e1766101352748.jpg\" alt=\"Map showing the positions of al boats in this years World's Toughest Row\" width=\"800\" height=\"430\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Race positions so far. Image: YB Tracking\/World&#8217;s Toughest Row<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Race statistics so far:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading: 44West<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading four: 44West<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading trio: Southsea Scullers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading pair: Stelantic<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leading soloist: The Jasper<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Ferry (UK)<\/strong><b>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rebecca Ferry is solo rowing across the Atlantic from Gran Canaria to Barbados. After three days, she has covered just over 300km of the 4,911km route. She is taking a more southerly route to take advantage of favorable currents and to avoid the low-pressure systems that may occur in the North Atlantic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ferry has shared very little about her journey, but her tracker provides daily updates on her position. Her biggest challenge so far has been the autopilot, which stopped working yesterday due to problems with the fuse. Luckily, she brought many spares with her, and after replacing the fuse, the autopilot is functioning again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Pacific Ocean<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Dave Bell (UK)<\/strong><b>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After solo rowing 5,000km from New York to Britain in 2021, Dave Bell has decided to attempt a mammoth 25,000km row across both the Pacific and Indian Oceans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110986\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110986\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110986\" src=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-18-233412-e1766101365904.jpg\" alt=\"Map showing Dave Bells route and progress so far\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bell&#8217;s progress so far. Image: YB Tracking\/Dave Bell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He began on November 9 from Peru and will first row to Australia. He then hopes to continue through the Torres Strait, a notoriously difficult stretch of water, around the top of Australia, and into the Indian Ocean. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From here, he will head to Mauritius. With 330 days of food on his boat, he does not plan to stop or receive support at any point. If successful, it will be the longest ever single-stage unsupported row.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has given no updates since starting, but his tracker indicates that he has covered about 3,600km.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hurricane season has subsided, and action has picked up on the world&#8217;s oceans with a big Atlantic race, and soloists on both the Atlantic and Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2117,"featured_media":110984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[99],"coauthors":[142],"class_list":["post-110982","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-rowing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ocean Rowing Roundup for December &#187; Explorersweb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The hurricane season has subsided, and action has picked up on the world&#039;s oceans with a big Atlantic race, and soloists on both the Atlantic and Pacific.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/ocean-rowing-roundup-for-december-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ocean Rowing Roundup for December &#187; 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