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British Pair Become First All-Female Team to Row Across the South Pacific Non-Stop and Unsupported

The pair finished in Cairns after a 165-day Lima-to-Cairns route that doubled as a fundraiser for the Outward Bound Trust.

Jess Rowe, left, and Miriam Payne saw a whale and caught fish on their journey
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Overview

  • Jess Rowe, 28, and Miriam Payne, 25, completed the voyage at 6:42pm local time at the Cairns Yacht Club after weather delays near the harbor entrance.
  • A gusting 20-knot headwind pushed their boat off the channel in the final hours, forcing a slow approach they described as brutal.
  • They departed Lima on 5 May following an aborted April attempt caused by a rudder failure early in the journey.
  • Over roughly 165 days at sea, they averaged about 50 nautical miles per day, rowing in shifts with one rowing at night while the other slept.
  • Their 9-metre boat carried about 400kg of mostly freeze-dried food, a desalinator and a micro-greens unit, and unreliable solar left them with limited power and at times without navigation or a beacon, as they raised more than £86,000 for the Outward Bound Trust.