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Severe weather conditions force Zirk Botha to return and delay trans-Atlantic Row to Rio 2020

7th December 2020

By: Creamer Media Reporter

     

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59 Year-old adventurer, Zirk Botha, has returned to shore in Cape Town one day after starting his Row to Rio (#Row2Rio2020), as a result of unpredicted heavy South-Westerly and Northerly wind conditions that threatened to blow him onto the coast or backwards towards his starting point. Botha is now waiting in Cape Town for conditions to improve and hopes to be able to leave in a week, if the weather settles.

“I have returned to Cape Town, temporarily in the face of extremely adverse wind conditions,“ said Botha.

‘My decision to depart on Saturday was based on a small weather window, which required me to be able to get away from Cape Town and far enough offshore to avoid the Northerly wind predicted to come through on Saturday night. However, the wind conditions deteriorated early -  During the night the Northerly pushed me all the way back to south of Robin Island. Considering at the prediction for the week ahead  of South-Westerly winds  and an ongoing Northerly wind, I realised I would keep being pushed back onto shore.

“This wasn't an ideal situation so I made the call to come back and wait for a proper weather window with a consistent pattern of Southerly and South Easterly winds that will allow me to get offshore without a struggle.”

Zirk plans to row 7000km alone across the Atlantic Ocean to Rio de Janeiro, in a small boat he constructed himself, a journey set to take him approximately 100 days in often dangerous seas.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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