Harrison accomplished the 2020 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Problem on Saturday in 70 days, 3 hours and 48 minutes — a brand new world report for the youngest feminine to row solo throughout any ocean, Atlantic Campaigns stated.
Alongside the way in which, she had a “close to collision with a drilling ship, two capsizes, a number of peanut butter and Nutella consumed,” Harrison stated on Twitter.
Harrison, from the landlocked city of Thirsk in North Yorkshire, England, wrote on her website that she was impressed to participate within the problem when she noticed the 2018 race end whereas educating swimming within the Caribbean.
“It wasn’t simply watching and holding the flares at Nelson’s Dockyard for a race end that impressed me, it was additionally speaking to a member of the family of a lad that had simply accomplished who instructed me simply how a lot of an incredible factor it was. I did not say ‘not an opportunity I’d do this,’ it was extra a truth of why not do it?” she wrote.
She says she hopes “to carry inspiration to younger those that it’s okay to go at issues alone,” in accordance with her Facebook page.
