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Close race between the grey wolf vs. the young gun
13:56 p.m. EST Mar 12, 2004
At 65 years old, Pavel Rezvoy (Marion Lviv) is the oldest among the six solo rowers in the Atlantic Rowing Regatta 2004. Incredibly enough he is also in the lead. But it's a tight race between him and the second, Sam Knight (Pacific Pete) - at 23 years the youngest to complete a solo ocean row.
It's 42 years and 38 miles between the two right now. Over the total distance of 2907 miles, only around half a day of rowing separate them at this point.
Pavel might have hit an unfavorable current, dropping his average of 60 miles daily, down to 50 miles in the past 4 days. He averaged 53 yesterday, with 484 miles to the finish. Sam averaged 56 yesterday, and have 522 miles to go.
Sam has worked as a marine biologist and hopes to move into a career in fisheries management. Pavel Rezvoy is a geologist and dad to Teddy Rezvoy, who has previously rowed the Atlantic from East to West in 2001 and set out to row solo in the reverse direction last summer, before he had an unwanted visit from the U.S. Navy.
Ocean Rowing Society Atlantic Rowing Regatta ORSARR 2004 takes place to celebrate the 35th anniversaries of the first East-West solo ocean row by John Fairfax and first West-East solo ocean row by Tom McClean; and 33rd anniversary of the first Atlantic East-West double row by Geoff and Don Allum.
Image of Sam, Pavel and rowing boats courtesy of Oceanrowing.com
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