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Paul Harris and Steve Gardner, both members of Zennor Gig Club
(Penzance), completed their row across the Atlantic in the 2007 Woodvale
Atlantic Rowing Race following the building of their boat 'The Reason
Why'.
The two rowers left La Gomera in the Canary Islands on 2nd
December 2007 and arrived in Antigua on 27th January
2008. The route is 2,552 nautical miles (2,936 miles) as the crow
flies although the route taken by rowers is always longer than this. The
row took 55 days 12 hours and 3 minutes to complete.
22 boats started the race, of which 2 retired.
Paul and Steve came 4th in the pairs class and
6th overall.
Cornwall
Hospice Care, was Paul and Steve's chosen charity, a charity created by the merger of St Julia's Hospice
in Hayle and Mount Edgcumbe in Austell, and which provides specialist palliative
care to people throughout Cornwall who are terminally ill. In August 2008,
Paul and Steve presented CHC with a cheque for £24,000.
Further details of the race including the race blog, photos,
poems, etc, are available on the website, www.the-reason-why.co.uk |

Christmas Day 2007 Aboard
'The Reason Why'
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