No Queens speech, no sprouts, and no snooze in the chair but the true spirit of Christmas will be found in the mid Atlantic this year as 17 crews row the 2,900 miles from La Gomera to Barbados. The 46 rowers in the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge leave San Sebastian on 4th December but will...

In December 2011, six ladies will depart from La Gomera (Canaries) to row unaided in the fastest trans-Atlantic row ever recorded. The women, all from Britain except their American skipper, will endure the harshest test known to mankind – to row across the Atlantic. It is a relatively unknown...