British women break men’s Pacific rowing record – despite capsizing

Jess Goddard, Charlotte Irving and Taylor Winyard brave shark-infested waters and melting equipment to complete 2,800-mile race

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Wow, those conditions sound so incredibly harsh! Must have been such a phenomenal feeling when they've arrived and even broken the world record :)
How do you even recover from a capsized boat of that size in the middle of presumably bad conditions? And the article said they did it THREE times? Amazing.
- @fubarx @solo it's a self-righting design. There's also a "hamster" thing they do if they're inside and it capsizes.
  
  Their insta has some videos of them talking about it! Crazy videos.
@solo we watched them depart Monterey! It was super cool watching them setup, too.