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Having rowed 500 miles past the all-important half-way mark
of their 2,100-mile Atlantic row, the intrepid Pink Lady®
crew could normally expect favourable westerly winds to help
push them home towards their final destination of Falmouth,
Cornwall.
The Pink Lady crew - comprising Mark Stubbs from Poole, Pete
Bray from South Wales, Jonathan Gornall from London and John
Wills from Surrey - left St John's, Newfoundland on June 30.
The Pink Lady team is tipped to break the world record for
the fastest Atlantic row from Canada.
Their weather expert, internationally-recognised Lee Bruce
from US-based Tactical Weather - a company that specialises
in weather advice for high precision adventure sports - says
that the crew's efforts are particularly noteworthy given
the variability in weather patterns experienced.
Typically, a west-east passage across the Atlantic at this
time of year is assisted by an Atlantic high - an area of
high pressure that moves from Bermuda in the west to the Azores
in mid-Atlantic - that when positioned mid-ocean, rotates
clock-wise to give westerly winds for boats passing to the
north.
Lee Bruce said, "This year has seen greater variability
in the weather pattern than would normally be expected, to
the disadvantage of the Pink Lady rowers.
"Such a crossing will always be challenging but this
year has seen the crew more frequently in the grip of strong
easterly winds, pushing against them in their drive to get
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