Atlantic row
NZPA-PA London An English farmer, Hugh King-Fretts, has rowed the Atlantic in 100 days. The 36-year-old Exmoor oarsman, who set out from Tenerife on January 30, reached Barbados in the West Indies yesterday after 4160 back-breaking kilometres in his nine-metre boat Hulu. Mr King-Fretts, who runs
a hill farm at Lynton, north Devon, reached his goal with just three days rations to spare, and despite a final 10 days of appalling weather. Mr King-Fretts hopes to row around the world eventually and become probably the first man to row all three great oceans, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian.
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Press, 12 May 1984, Page 11
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