Ebook: Crossing the swell: an Atlantic journey by rowboat
Author: Holmes Tori, Gorman Liam, Gleeson Paul
- Tags: Aviron--Atlantique Nord, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, Rowing, Rowing--North Atlantic Ocean, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports, Transatlantic voyages, Travel, Voyages transatlantiques, Biography, Gleeson Paul -- 1976 or 1977- -- Travel -- North Atlantic Ocean, Holmes Tori -- Travel -- North Atlantic Ocean, Rowing -- North Atlantic Ocean, Gleeson Paul -- 1976 ou 7 -- Voyages -- Atlantique Nord, Holmes Tori -- Voyages -- Atlantique Nord, Aviron -- Atlantique Nord, Holmes Tori, North Atlantic Ocean
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books
- City: Surrey;BC;North Atlantic Ocean
- Language: English
- epub
That first day is hard. The hands begin to cramp, drops of blood start oozing through your fingertips . . .
In 2003, Tori Holmes, a 21-year-old from Alberta, Canada, and Paul Gleeson, a 29-year-old financial advisor from Limerick, Ireland, met in Australia when Holmes answered an ad to drive the support vehicle for Gleeson's 5,000-kilometre cycling trek across that country. During their first adventure together, Gleeson fell hard: both off his bike and for the woman driving the car.
Once Australia was behind them, it became clear that crossing a continent together was simply not enough. Acting on self-assured determination and an ever-growing sense of adventure, Gleeson and Holmes embraced the dream of rowing a tiny boat across the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean in the 2005/06 Trans-Atlantic Race. Of course, neither of the young adventurers knew how to row, so they connected and trained with the only Irishmen ever to have completed the same race, Eamonn and Peter...