Who rowed the Atlantic in 1966 with John Ridgway?
"Chay Blyth Sir Charles Blyth (born 14 May 1940), known as Chay Blyth, is a Scottish yachtsman and rower. He was the first person to sail single-handed non-stop westwards around the world (1971), on a 59-foot boat called ""British Steel"". Blyth was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He joined the British Army Parachute Regiment when he was 18 and was promoted to Sergeant at the age of 21. In 1966, whilst in the Army, Blyth, together with Captain John Ridgway, rowed across the North Atlantic in a 20 ft open dory called ""English Rose III"". After successfully completing this in 92"
"founded the John Ridgway School of Adventure at Ardmore, Sutherland, Scotland. It is now managed by his daughter, Rebecca. In 1977-78 he raced the school's 57-foot ketch, English Rose VI, in the Whitbread Round the World Race. In 1983/4 Ridgway and Andy Briggs sailed English Rose VI in a non-stop passage round the world, setting (what was then) a 203-day record. In 2003/4 Ridgway circumnavigated the globe in English Rose VI, in a campaign to highlight the plight of albatrosses. He served with the Special Air Service (SAS). John Ridgway (sailor) John Ridgway, MBE, (born 1938), is a British yachtsman"
"he was bored and enlisted in the British Army. After Blyth and Ridgway rowed the Atlantic in 1966, McClean announced to both that he was going to complete this alone. McClean started his military career in the Parachute Regiment and then progressed into the SAS for a total of nine years. Following his retirement from military service, McClean gained fame for numerous feats of endurance. He holds the world record as the first man to row across the Atlantic Ocean from west to east solo which he did in 1969. In 1982 he sailed across the Atlantic in the smallest"
"Don Allum Donald Edward Allum (17 May 1937 – 1 December 1992) was an English oarsman, the first person to row across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions. Allum's cousin, Geoff Allum, initially thought of the idea to row solo across the Atlantic after reading John Ridgway and Chay Blyth's book ""A Fighting Chance"" and ""The Penance Way"" by Merton Naydler, written about the respective exploits of rowing duos Ridgway and Blyth, and David Johnston and John Hoare. However, on hearing the news that this feat had just been completed by John Fairfax, he instead decided that he and Allum"
"first read of Chay Blyth and John Ridgway’s successful row across the Atlantic and realised that if he wanted to be the first person to row solo across the Atlantic he would have to do it soon. After returning to England it took Fairfax two years to prepare for the row. On 19 July 1969 he became the first person to row solo across an ocean when he arrived in Florida having set off from the Canary Islands. The self-righting and self-bailing boat ""Britannia"", now located in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, was designed by Uffa Fox. The row took"
"John MacGregor (sportsman) John MacGregor (24 January 1825 Gravesend – 16 July 1892 Boscombe, Bournemouth), nicknamed ""Rob Roy"" after a renowned relative, was a Scottish explorer, travel writer and philanthropist. He is generally credited with the development of the first sailing canoes and with popularising canoeing as a sport in Europe and the United States. He founded the British Royal Canoe Club (RCC) in 1866 becoming its first Captain and also founded American Canoe Association in 1880. MacGregor worked as a barrister in London, and was an accomplished artist who drew all the illustrations in his travel books. MacGregor was"
"prize for the fastest circumnavigation, and with the help of a wildly optimistic table of probable performances, he even predicted that he would be first to finishdespite a planned departure on 1 October. Given the design of the race, there was no organised start; the competitors set off whenever they were ready, over a period of several months. On 1 June 1968, the first allowable day, John Ridgway sailed from Inishmore, Ireland, in his weekend cruiser ""English Rose IV"". Just a week later, on 8 June, Chay Blyth followed suitdespite having absolutely no sailing experience. On the day he set"
"to be deliberately rowed across was the Atlantic by Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo, two Norwegians, in June 1896. The pair left Battery Park, Manhattan, on 6 June 1896, arriving on the Isles of Scilly, 55 days and 13 hours later, having covered . They continued to row to Le Havre, France. The first solo crossing of an ocean was completed by John Fairfax of Britain on 19 July 1969. He rowed from Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands to Hollywood Beach, Florida in 180 days. In the same year Tom McClean, also of Britain, rowed from Newfoundland, Canada arriving"
"rower Alan Burrough who took part in Cambridge's two losses in the 1937 and 1938 races and their victory in the 1939 race. Burrough had also umpired the 1966 race. Oxford were coached by their former boat club president Iain Elliott who rowed for the Dark Blues in the 1960 and 1961 races, and the Olympic rower ""Jumbo"" Edwards who had represented Oxford in the 1926 race. Lou Barry coached the Cambridge crew. Czechoslovakian international rower Bob Janoušek assessed both crews as ""extremely fit"" but ""far from expert in rowing"". The Cambridge crew weighed an average of 13 st 9.25"
"Atlantic in 1966, to design a small, light boat capable of surviving extreme conditions. This design was later modified to a solo vessel. Five years after her record-breaking row, Katie Spotz’ book, ""Just Keep Rowing"", which is co-authored by university professor Mark Bowles, details the various lessons she learned during her 70-day journey. A portion of the proceeds from ""Just Keep Rowing"" will support the mission of partner, H2O for Life. Katie Spotz feature in WideWorld magazine Katie Spotz Katie Spotz (born 1987) is an American adventurer who became the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, departing"
"Atlantic. In 1952, Alain Bombard crossed the Atlantic from East to West, spending 113 days adrift in a Zodiac, ""L'Hérétique"". In 1956, Henri Beaudout crossed the Atlantic from West to East, from Halifax to Falmouth, on a raft of wood and rope, ""L’Égaré II"", in 88 days. In 1988, the junk raft, ""Son of Town Hall"", crossed the North Atlantic Ocean. In 2011, Anthony Smith and the Antiki crossed the Atlantic. On June 13, 2003, the French rower Maud Fontenoy started an eastward crossing of the Atlantic from Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. She reached A Coruña in Spain on October 10, becoming the"
"should attempt to become the first crew to row the Atlantic in both directions. In 1971 the pair made their westbound attempt in their boat, the dory ""QE3"". During the crossing, Don and Geoff had only a short wave radio receiver for listening to the BBC World Service; no electronic equipment for communicating with other vessels. For navigation, they used a sextant. Their chosen port of departure was Las Palmas on Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands; in part because it had also been Ridgway and Blyth's starting point, as well as that of Alain Bombard, who rafted across the"
"Ben Thackwray Ben Thackwray (born 13 May 1980) is a record breaking British adventurer, explorer, endurance athlete, ocean rower, mountaineer, cross country skier, ultra distance runner and former semi-pro footballer. Thackwray was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire and played semi-professional football for Farsley Celtic A.F.C and Guiseley A.F.C. He is best known for rowing the Atlantic in 2008 and setting the fastest crossing of the Atlantic in a rowing boat (37 days) from the Canary Islands (San Sebastián de La Gomera, Spain) to Antigua as part of a 5-man crew aboard 'Oyster Shack' and the Guinness World Record for the"
"Ray Carroll Ray Carroll (born 1977) is an Irish rower. A native of Salthill, Galway, Carroll was part of a four-man crew that set a new record for trans-Atlantic rowing in August 2010. His crewmates were skipper Leven Brown (37), Don Lennox (41), and Livar Nysted (39), their ship the ""Artemis Investments"". The crew set a new record of forty-three days, twenty-one hours, twenty-six minutes and forty-eight seconds to complete the three thousand miles from New York City to the Scilly Isles. The previous record was set by Norwegians George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen in 1896. They departed New York"
"between 1955 and 1959, while the first Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race was held in 1960 and won by Francis Chichester. The first nonstop circumnavigation race in 1968 was won by Robin Knox-Johnston, while the first ""wrong way"" circumnavigation was by Chay Blyth in 1970. A Round Britain Single Handed Race was instituted in 1966. A sailing speed world record of was set at Portland by a catamaran in 1980. Frederick W. Lanchester built the first power boat in 1898 using a , water-cooled engine. Since then power boats have been used as run-abouts and for racing, as well as for water-skiing."
"in October 2001. He announced his retirement as CEO of Virgin Atlantic on 10 September 2012, and left the company on 1 February 2013. He has built the £13.5m St Moritz Hotel in Trebetherick, Cornwall, with his brother Hugh. Steve has three children and lives in London and Sussex. His children were educated at St Edward's School, Oxford the same school where Sir Richard Branson had his children educated. He enjoys sailing and fast cars. He was awarded a CBE in the 2006 New Year Honours. Steve Ridgway Stephen Ridgway CBE (born 29 September 1951) is a British business executive"
"Louis Ginglo Louis Ginglo (born 1965 in Hamilton, Ontario) was the first Canadian rower to cross the Atlantic Ocean singlehandedly from east to west. He began his solo voyage on 20 January 2004 from San Sebastián de La Gomera, Canary Islands. The crossing was completed when he docked at Port Saint Charles, Barbados, on 20 May 2004. His journey of 4678 km took 120 days. As a competitor in the Ocean Rowing Society’s 2004 Atlantic Rowing Regatta, Ginglo took his 8m boat, ""Moose On The Move"", fully equipped for an unassisted journey. Despite little previous experience in ocean rowing, and"
"by ""Kiwi Challenge"", rowed by Rob Hamill and Phil Stubbs after 41 days at sea. Second place went to the French crew of ""Atlantik Challenge"", Joseph Le Guen and his partner, a double convicted murderer, Pascal Blond. Later Atlantic rowing races: Following his successful Atlantic Ocean crossing, John Fairfax set off from San Francisco in California on 26 April 1971 with Sylvia Cook. After three stops (in Mexico, Fanning Island and the Gilbert Island of Onotoa), the two arrived on Hayman Island in Australia 361 days later on 22 April 1972. In doing so Cook became the first woman to"
"with Wolfe's name to make a plaque for the nearby Gilkey Memorial which at that time had the names of 52 other climbers who had died on K2. Dudley Wolfe Dudley Francis Cecil Wolfe (February 6, 1896 – July 30, 1939) was an American racing yacht owner and captain who was the first person to race a sixty-foot yacht across the Atlantic, competing against much larger vessels. He was to inherit a large fortune from his maternal grandfather provided he changed his family name to ""Smith"", to which he agreed before reverting back again. Wolfe became posthumously famous when he"
"a lifetime spent working in corporate finance, he made the crossing successfully and in good time. Louis Ginglo Louis Ginglo (born 1965 in Hamilton, Ontario) was the first Canadian rower to cross the Atlantic Ocean singlehandedly from east to west. He began his solo voyage on 20 January 2004 from San Sebastián de La Gomera, Canary Islands. The crossing was completed when he docked at Port Saint Charles, Barbados, on 20 May 2004. His journey of 4678 km took 120 days. As a competitor in the Ocean Rowing Society’s 2004 Atlantic Rowing Regatta, Ginglo took his 8m boat, ""Moose On"
"Robert Manry Robert Manry (June 2, 1918 – February 21, 1971) was a copy editor of the Cleveland ""Plain Dealer"" who in 1965 sailed from Falmouth, Massachusetts, to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, in a tiny sailboat (an Old Town ""Whitecap"" built by the Old Town Canoe Co. of Old Town, Maine, which he had extensively modified for the voyage) named ""Tinkerbelle"". Beginning on June 1, 1965, and ending on August 17, the voyage lasted 78 days. At the time, ""Tinkerbelle"" was the shortest but not the smallest boat to make a non-stop trip across the Atlantic Ocean (till today the smallest"
"John Fairfax (rower) John Fairfax (21 May 1937 – 8 February 2012) was a British ocean rower and adventurer who, in 1969, became the first person to row solo across an ocean. He subsequently went on to become the first to row the Pacific Ocean (with Sylvia Cook) in 1971/2. Fairfax was born 21 May 1937 in Italy to an English father and Bulgarian mother. As a child he was expelled from the Italian Boy Scouts for opening fire, with a revolver, on a hut containing other Scouts. Soon after, he and his mother moved to Argentina where, aged thirteen,"
"Chris Davidge Christopher Guy Vere Davidge OBE DL (5 November 1929 – 22 December 2014) was a British rower who competed in the Summer Olympics three times in 1952, 1956 and 1960 and won the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta three times. Davidge was born in Northampton, son of Cecil Vere Davidge, and his wife Ursula Catherine Smyth. He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University at Trinity College and rowed in the Oxford boat in the 1949 Boat Race. He returned to stroke Oxford in the 1951 Boat Race, when the Oxford boat sank, and the race"
"in Blacksod Bay, Ireland on 27 July 1969. Despite having left almost four months after Fairfax, he came within 8 days of beating Fairfax to the title of first solo rower of any ocean. In 1974, Derek Paul King and Peter Bird rowed across the Atlantic Ocean from Gibraltar to St. Lucia in Britannia II - the boat designed by Uffa Fox and first rowed by John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook across the Pacific Ocean in 1971/72. Kathleen and Curtis Saville were the first Americans to row across the Atlantic Ocean from Casablanca to Antigua in 1981 and Kathleen was"
"Dudley Wolfe Dudley Francis Cecil Wolfe (February 6, 1896 – July 30, 1939) was an American racing yacht owner and captain who was the first person to race a sixty-foot yacht across the Atlantic, competing against much larger vessels. He was to inherit a large fortune from his maternal grandfather provided he changed his family name to ""Smith"", to which he agreed before reverting back again. Wolfe became posthumously famous when he died on the 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2 in controversial circumstances. Dudley Wolfe was born in New York on February 6, 1896 to Dudley Wolfe and Mabel"
"England. Notable people on board were Briton John Cooper, who won silver medals in the men's 400 metres hurdles and the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and Jim Conway, general secretary of the British Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union. There were 177 Britons, 48 Japanese, 44 Turkish, 25 Americans, 16 French, five Brazilians, three Argentine, two Australian, two Indians, one Belgian, one Cypriot, one West German, one Irish, one Moroccan, one New Zealander, one Pakistani, one Senegalese, one Spaniard, one Swede, one Swiss, and one South Vietnamese. The French Minister of Transport appointed"
"Eugene Smurgis Eugene Smurgis (19 August 1938 – 15 November 1993) was a Russian Arctic marine explorer, ultra-long distance rower and Arctic rowing pioneer. From 1967 to 1993 Eugene rowed a total of 48,000KM on oceans, seas and rivers; a distance longer than the circumference of the Earth and the greatest distance ever rowed by a solo ultra-endurance rower. Most of his pioneering rows were completed in the Arctic in a primitive open boat with no cabin or crawl space. He was the first recorded polar ocean rower, as the earlier Antarctic expedition by Ernest Shackleton predominantly relied on sails"
"Robert Egerton Swartwout Robert Egerton Swartwout (July 2, 1905 – June 2, 1951) was an American-born author, poet, cartoonist, and coxswain. He was the only son of American architect Egerton Swartwout and British-born Geraldine Davenport Swartwout. He drew from his rowing experience to produce a locked room mystery about The Boat Race and many poems. Swartwout rowed and coxed for Middlesex School in Concord, MA, from which he graduated on June 13, 1924. While attending Trinity College at the University of Cambridge he became the first American to cox Cambridge University Boat Club to victory over Oxford in 1930. Swartwout"
"bested the record set by Samuelsen and Harbo by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 43 days, 21 hours and 26 minutes. But the record for two people rowing across the Atlantic still belongs to Harbo and Samuelson. Samuelsen and Harbo's voyage was the subject of a 2016 episode of the Futility Closet Podcast. Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo Frank Samuelsen (26 February 1870 – 1946) and George Harbo (14 September 1864 – 1909) were Norwegian-born Americans who in 1896 became the first people ever to row across an ocean. Their time record for rowing the North Atlantic Ocean was not"
"race, contested between Oxford's Isis boat and Cambridge's Goldie boat has been held since 1965. It usually takes place on the Tideway, prior to the main Boat Race. Despite weighing just over less per man than their opponents, Cambridge were the pre-race favourites. Both boats contained four Blues; the Oxford cox Peter Hackworth attended St Paul's School while Cambridge's cox Ellie Griggs attended St Paul's Girls' School, so both were familiar with the course. Oxford's crew contained two American international rowers in Dan Perkins and Luke McGee, and Gerritjan Eggenkamp, a Dutch international. Cambridge's stroke, Rick Dunn, cousin of Oxford's"
"included Chris Baillieu (whose grandfather had rowed in the 1913 race), Neil James, David Maxwell and Graham Hughes. American Olympic rower Gardiner Cadwalader (who finished fifth in the men's coxed four in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico) along with four British Olympic team candidates (Maxwell, Bailieu, Michael Hart and James) brought experience to the Light Blue boat. Cambridge's crew also contained brothers Michael and James Hart, the first time a pair of siblings had rowed for Cambridge since the Kingsford's in the 1935 race. Along with Cadwalader, Oxford cox Fred Yalouris was American, while the Dark Blue bow Michael"
"Tinkerbelle Tinkerbelle is a sailboat in which 47-year-old newspaperman Robert Manry, a copy editor at the Cleveland ""Plain Dealer"", single-handedly crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1965. At the time, it was the shortest but not the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic nonstop (till today the smallest is Lindemann's folding kayak). He left Falmouth, Massachusetts on June 1 and arrived in Falmouth, Cornwall, England 78 days later, greeted by an armada of small boats and a huge crowd. Mayor Samuel A. Hooper of Falmouth officially welcomed him at the town's Custom House Quay. Robert Manry's wife Virginia and his children,"
"confidential support service for 15- to 25-year-olds in Galway city and county. Ray Carroll Ray Carroll (born 1977) is an Irish rower. A native of Salthill, Galway, Carroll was part of a four-man crew that set a new record for trans-Atlantic rowing in August 2010. His crewmates were skipper Leven Brown (37), Don Lennox (41), and Livar Nysted (39), their ship the ""Artemis Investments"". The crew set a new record of forty-three days, twenty-one hours, twenty-six minutes and forty-eight seconds to complete the three thousand miles from New York City to the Scilly Isles. The previous record was set by"