After rowing 5500 kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean, in 76 days, solo rower Peter van Kets made landfall in Antigua on Monday, 22 March 2010. And this morning he landed in Jo’burg, en route to his home in East London.
Trail runners Wouna and Gerry le Roux are currently on a three-week unsupported endurace walk through the Klein Karoo from J-Bay to Yzerfontein. Now 14-days into their journey, they’re halfway through their expedition, named ‘Walking for Water’.
Ray Chaplin, who has been walking from Cape Town to Beit Bridge towing a trailer loaded with his kit and water, has just under 270km to go to Beit Bridge. He should be there by this time next week. Ray has made steady progress since he set off from Cape Town at New Year.
Solo, trans-Atlantic ocean rower Peter van Kets now has less than 500nm to row to Antigua. Tough weather conditions and a competitive solo rival, Charlie Pitcher, meant that Pete lost out on winning the solo category and setting a solo record. He’s in contention for second.
Paraglider Pierre Carter is about to embark on his new adventure of climbing the seven summits and flying off their tops. He’s called it Seven Summits Seven Flights. Pierre, who made our radar last year when he took part in the Red Bull X-Alps challenge, has been mountaineering and paragliding for years.
The expected ‘BIG STORM’ hit the fleet on Wednesday, sending the rowers into their cabins to wait it out. Although Peter van Kets is further South than most of the other transAtlantic rowers, he hasn’t escaped the storm.
CT-to-Beit-Bridge walker, Ray Chaplin, has been on the road for 30 days. On Thursday, 29 Jan, heading towards Hopetown, Ray clocked his 1000th kilometre covered. He is now 120km from Kimberley and he should get there in another four days.
While Peter van Kets rows across the Atlantic, Kaalvoet Jaco is heading into the Northern Cape and Ray Chaplin inches closer to Kimberley, walking and towing a trailer, Kyle Meecham (23) is nearing the end of his journey walking around South Africa. Kyle has been walking (around SA’s perimeter) since May 2009.
After a week on the water, Trans-Atlantic solo rower Peter van Kets is in second place and chasing down solo rival Charlie Pitcher. In this first week Peter has been smacked about by bad weather and large side-on swells, had a close-encounter with a ship and was visited, at night, by a big something that kept bumping into his boat.
Finally, the Woodvale Ocean Race is set to start – today! After the initial delays (nasty weather) to the original early-December date, solo ocean rower Peter van Kets returned to South Africa, spending the festive holidays with his family. He returned to La Gomera days before New Year, anticipating an early January start.
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