British women break men’s Pacific rowing record – despite capsizing (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 12 points 4 months ago

Wow, those conditions sound so incredibly harsh! Must have been such a phenomenal feeling when they've arrived and even broken the world record :)

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

How do you even recover from a capsized boat of that size in the middle of presumably bad conditions? And the article said they did it THREE times? Amazing.

[-] douglasvb@mastodon.social 3 points 4 months ago

@fubarx @solo it's a self-righting design. There's also a "hamster" thing they do if they're inside and it capsizes.

Their insta has some videos of them talking about it! Crazy videos.

[-] douglasvb@mastodon.social 3 points 4 months ago

@solo we watched them depart Monterey! It was super cool watching them setup, too.

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