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All-female crew bid to be first to cross Pacific unsupported

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Published date22 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Miriam Payne, 24, Lottie Hopkinson-Woolley, also 24, and Jess Rowe, 27, aim to break three records with their feat, which will see them spend up to six months at sea

The team, named Seas The Day, hopes to become the youngest group to row across the Pacific, as well as the first trio to take on the challenge non-stop and unsupported.

"We just want to inspire young people to feel like anything is possible," Miss Hopkinson-Woolley, from London, said. "Breaking records is one thing, but if we can inspire people to go and do something they wouldn't necessarily do, that's way more important."

The crew will set off from Peru in April next year and row west continually until they hit Australia.

Both Miss Rowe and Miss Payne have rowed across the Atlantic - with the latter tackling the feat solo as part of The World's Toughest Row in 2023.

Miss Hopkinson-Woolley added that while each team member will have a specific role on board, "we have to trust each other with our lives".

The challenge will be her first ocean row and she said there are "lots of excitements" to the venture...

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