Crossing the Atlantic in a rowboat: a 114-year-old record beaten

Four rowers broke a 114-year-old record by crossing the Atlantic in a rowing boat in 43 days from New York to the Scilly Islands, off the coast of south-west England, where they arrived Saturday.

Their journey time - 43 days, 21 hours, 26 minutes and 48 seconds - was reduced from eleven days the previous record set in 1896 by Norwegians George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.

The crew consisted of coxswain British Leven Brown, 37, Edinburgh, Ray Carroll, 33, from Galway in Ireland, Don Lennox, 41, of Glasgow, and Livar Nysted, 39, Islands Faroe.

After two false starts due to bad weather and technical problems, four members of the Artemis team North Atlantic Rowing Challenge have finally left New York on June 17 aboard their boat seven meters Artemis Investments.

They have faced waves of 10 feet and winds of 65 km / h, have suffered from food poisoning and coxswain Leven Brown had to make a toe infection Ray Carroll with a knife.