Hollie Luff and her team of Mike Hatch, Elliot Holman and Rachel Lasham embarked on the gruelling Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge - an annual race from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua in the Caribbean.
How brave do you have to be to decide you’re going to row across the Atlantic, not long after taking up the sport as a pastime?In fact, it was while she was recovering from having the titanium spine fitted during corrective surgery for scoliosis several years ago that the idea first came to her.
Hollie Luff was inspired by this image of Ellen Macarthur celebrating after her record-breaking journey around the world ‘I then phoned my wife to make sure she was all right with it, and she was like, “Yeah, do it, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so do it.”’A year and a half of intense training followed, ahead of the Atlantic Campaign starting pistol on December 12 2022.
They hired top ocean rowing trainer Duncan Roy to get them in the best possible condition, and picked a good cause to highlight: the Centre for Enzyme Innovation at the University of Portsmouth, which was working to find a solution to global plastic pollution.And then Team In Our Element were pulling away from the shore at La Gomera, losing sight of land with every stroke.
As she recovered, she would sit with Hollie with hot chocolates and biscuits at night, looking at the stars over the ocean.Hollie Luff brought together the team after listening to a talk by another woman who had made the same crossing They got ham and a Terry’s Chocolate Orange from their rival teams, and a package from one of Hollie’s family friends contained a pirate’s eyepatch, a small compass, a sleeping mask and a swimming cap.The four amateur rowers ahead of their departure from La Gomara
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