Weather hits Shropshire rower's Atlantic challenge
A rower from Shropshire has been forced to delay an Atlantic Ocean challenge because of difficult weather conditions.
Along with a team of seven others, 47-year-old Steve Harpin, from Shrewsbury, is hoping to take to the water and attempt the 3,000 miles between Gran Canaria and Barbados in just 31 days.
The eight-strong team on the Toby Wallace also includes Simon Chalk, of Loggerheads, who has rowed the Atlantic six times – will each row for 12 hours a day.
They will be up against another team, called Ostershack, with both hoping to smash the current world record of 32 days.
Steve said: "We are closely monitoring the weather systems to ensure a safe departure at the earliest possible time. Sadly this won't be in the next few days but we will leave as soon as possible.
"In the meantime they we doing plenty of on-water training of drills, safety procedures, life onboard and basically being as best prepared as possible for what is to come."
The teams can be tracked during their journey on organiser Oceanus Rowing's website www.oceanusrowing.co.uk/atlantic-ocean-rowing