Maxim and Stefan Ivanov (Bulgaria)

Completed their Atlantic East to West row from Portumao, Portugal to Barbados on board Neverest.

    Lia Ditton (UK)

Days : hours : minutes

86 : 10 : 6

Completed her Mid-Pacific East to West solo row from San Francisco, California to Waikiki, O'ahu Hawaii.
 

    Tez Steinberg (USA)

      Days : hours : minutes

70 : 22 : 30

Completed his Mid-Pacific East to West solo row from Monterey, California to Kaneohe, O'ahu, Hawaii aboard Moderation.
 

   Oliver Dawe-Lane, Charles Bromhead, Arthur Chatto, Harry Lidgley (all UK)

Team Exe Endurow completed their row around Mainland Great Britain.

 

    Angela Madsen (USA)

Was rowing The Pacific E-W solo from Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles County, CA. USA to Honolulu HI on board Rowoflife to become the oldest woman to row an ocean solo, the first paraplegic to row an ocean solo, the only person to row on 3 oceans + to circumnavigate The Great Britain.

"With extreme sadness I must announce that Angela Madsen will not complete her solo row to Hawaii. I received her last text Saturday night. Sunday she was not responding to my text messages. When I checked the main message inbox she had not returned any messages. When I looked at the tracking it did not appear that she was rowing the boat, but rather that is was drifting. Knowing she was planning to enter the water to fix her hardware to deploy the para-anchor from the bow, I was concerned she did not text when she got back on the boat. She was about as far from any land as she could get and the communication can be a challenge, I was hopeful but still had a feeling of heaviness in my chest. Soraya contacted the US Coast Guard and explained our concern. They diverted a Cargo Ship to render aid. German registered ship, Polynesia, answered to call. They were in route to Tahiti from Oakland. They were 11-12 hours from RowofLife. In the meantime, the US Coast Guard, sent a C17 for a fly over about 8-9pm. The plane saw Angela in the water, apparently deceased, tethered to RowofLife but was unable to relay that information due to poor satellite coverage. When the Polynesia arrived about 11PM Monday night they found and recovered Angela’s body. RowofLife is adrift and we are working on its recovery. Angela is now in route to Tahiti without me, which was not our agreement.
Angela was living her dream. She loved being on the water as you could see from the photos she sent. Please be patient with me as I am not a phone person and I’m pretty overwhelmed with tasks at the moment. I am sad but ok. I never planned a life without her so be patient with me while I figure all of this out. Thank you for all your support. Angela was truly touched by your support. Thank you to the US Coast Guard and the Captain and Crew of the Polynesia."

Debra Bogan Madsen

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    Milan Svetlik (USA / Czech Republic)

was rowing the Atlantic West to East solo from New York, USA to St Mary's, Scilly Isles, UK on board Czechmate.

  Stéphane Brogniart (France)

Days : hours : minutes

72  :  00  :  37
 

Completed the row across the Atlantic East to West solo from El Hierro to Martinique on board Etarcos.
 

  Graham Walters (UK)

Days : hours : minutes

95  :  08  :  00
 

completed his 5th row across the Atlantic East to West (1997, 2001, 2003/04, 2007) from Canaries to Antigua on board his legendary boat George Geary. Upon completion of this row, being 72 years, 6 months, 8 days at the start, he became the oldest person to row an ocean solo (the previous record of oldest solo ocean rower was held by Fedor Konyukhov, 66 yrs 359 d at the start of his last row.)
 

   Callum Mcdonald (UK)

Days : hours : minutes

03  :  07  :  30 

undertook an attempt to row the Atlantic E-W solo from Europe to the Caribbeans.

  Gabor Rakonczay (Hungary)

Having already crossed the Atlantic E-W twice (2006/07 - rowing in a Pair and  paddling in 2012 solo on board an ocean canoe) has attempted to paddle solo across the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddle board (SUP), designed and built by himself. Without any cabin or shelter. This is a project of zero comfort and ultra-minimalism.

  Shirley Thompson (Ireland))

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undertook an attempt to row the Atlantic E-W solo on board Amigo from El Hierro, the Canaries to Barbados in aim to become the oldest female (61yrs 244 days at the start) and the first Irish woman to row any ocean solo.
The current record of the oldest solo female oceanrower is 55 years 135 days, it has been held by Diana Hoff (the 2nd woman to row any ocean solo) for already 19 years -  since  2000