Twenty-three-year-old Miriam Payne, will spend 50-60 days at sea – missing out on Christmas and New Year with family and friends – rowing, sleeping, eating and navigating her lightweight boat across the ocean.
Having rowed for a crew on rivers, it’s been a steep learning curve for the Physics and Astrophysics graduate, who has gone through intensive training to ensure she is physically fit and ready for the challenge and equipped with the navigations skills, the mental strength and first aid knowledge needed to keep herself safe.
Proud dad Christopher says she’s been in training for two years, spending hours at the gym to ensure she’s physically fit, but also completing 120 hours out at sea as a minimum and ensuring she has passed all the boat inspections, navigation skills, kit inspections, first aid courses and planning to cover food for 85 days and a working system for drinking water.“There is so much to do,” he said. “But she’s up for it and getting very excited about it now.
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