Four British young women who are rowing from San Francisco to Cairns are expected to stop over in Samoa on November 3 .
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And when they complete their mission, they will set world records for being the first female team to row across the Pacific and as the first ever four-person boat that has travelled, with no support whatsoever.
The distance between San Francisco and Cairns is 8446 miles.
The team are Laura Penhall, Natalia Cohen, Isabel Bunham and Emma Mitchell.
The journey started in April, when they left San Francisco. Yesterday was their 87th day at sea as they are currently rowing across the Pacific. They stopped over at Honolulu and are expected to be in Samoa for a week.
Their experiences are updated daily on the Losing Sight of Shore blog and facebook page. The journey will also be covered in a documentary film with the same name and directed by Emmy Award winning director, Sarah Moshman.
For the young women who are rowing a pink carbon fibre boat, its all about raising awareness about breast cancer and a charity for soldiers who were injured while serving, known as Walking with the Wounded.
An update post on their Losing Sight of Shore facebook page yesterday: Day 87
“After spending six months out in the middle of the Almighty Pacific, I feel as if I’m slowly beginning to understand her a little better. She truly is magnificent, as I’ve said many times before, but its difficult to ask you to come and experience her without first preparing you for her every changing personality."
“Within her vast boundaries, Oceania can be a healer, joker, protector and teacher. This is why she provides us with the perfect environment to fight and overcome our adversities and to learn many a lesson from her variable landscape."
“She is a very close ally of the wind and the sky and working in unison, they have a strong effect on her mood and behaviour."
Meanwhile, Nicola Mills, who lives in Samoa, has followed the updates closely and plans to do a proper Samoan welcome for the rowers.
“I was just following the blog just out of interest and thought wow, this is an amazing achievement and I saw they were coming into Apia. They can’t just come in and no one acknowledge what they’re doing.”
So far the welcome will include a traditional ava ceremony and entertainment. Ms Mills aims to get the schools near the waterfront involved and to have as many people possible come down and give them a real welcome.
“What they’re doing is epic and it needs to be acknowledged and I don’t want them to come to Samoa and not get a real Samoan welcome.”
While here, Digicel will sponsor communications, Hyundai a vehicle, Riverside Band B are putting up the rowers, support and film crew, Siva Afi will also assist where needed, Roseburg Day Spa for massage and pampering. Samoa Voyaging Society, Xavier Lui and the crew of Galualofa will also take part in the welcome.
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