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Sally and Sarah looking for breeze
18:04 p.m. EST Apr 7, 2004
Sally and Sarah are 829 miles from the finish line and are calling for a sacrifice. They have been out at sea for 78 days. They average about 23 to 35 miles a day which would put them in the Barbados on April 30th at the earliest. Here’s what they have to say about that;
“RIGHT YOU LOT WE NEED YOUR HELP! We’re fed up out here and we want to get home. The waves are coming from the south and the wind from SSE, any way you look at it they’re both pushing us in the wrong direction. We’ve been struggling for days now just to stay in the same spot and it’s doing nothing for our frown lines, except deepening them!
We need a PEG SACRIFICE on a very large scale and we need your help. Grab a wooden peg and not the mankiest one either! Pick one you’re going to miss and then find a suitable body of water, a river, stream, lake or pond (a washing machine will do at a push). At 7pm on Tuesday we’ll sacrifice our pegs together. This is what you need to say as you toss your precious jetsam into the water:-“Please grant Sally, Sarah, Matt, Richard, Henry and Moose a steady Force 5 with strong ENE winds to speed them to Barbados to their much missed family and friends. Thank you.
If we all do it together maybe the clerk at the ‘Ocean Weather’ desk in the sky will do something about it!”
Moose is farthest with 1110miles to go. Then it's Henry and Justin with 1082, the girls, Richard with 578, and Matt with 262 miles to go.
Mother and daughter team Sally and Sarah Kettle have been out rowing the Atlantic ocean for a little more than 2 months now. Sallys first row was with her boyfriend Marcus Thompson (Tommo). They raised money to highlight the need for research into a cure for epilepsy and as Tommo suffers from the condition.
The couple had to retire from the race after 6 days due to sea sickness which brought on Tommo's first seizure in over 2 years. That's when Sally called on her mom Sarah to replace Tommo:
"When Sally first phoned me from the boat asking if I could take Marcus’s place I couldn’t believe my luck! I packed some baked beans and some rice cakes and caught the ferry from Tenerife to La Gomera the next morning. I organized my home and my husband Steve. He has already employed a friend’s daughter to do the ironing and feed our pets. The ladies I work for as a gardener have been really fantastic and they’ve given me permission to have the time off."
Tommo is back in Brighton readjusting to a life without ocean rowing and the women will be the first Mother and Daughter team and only the second all female team to row the Atlantic: We don’t intend to win; in fact we know the only record within our reach would be the longest time spent crossing the Atlantic, which currently stands at 111 days!"
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.
Sally and Sarah are team pink, Calderdale - The Yorkshire Challenger.
Image of Sally and Sarah Kettle courtesy of the Ocean Rowing Society.
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