Annals Of Achievement: Maud Made It….

This is old(ish) news, seeing as it happened March 27 while I was taking my ease on the island of Culebra, but it definitely bears noting: on that day intrepid, indomitable, Quixotic, eccentric French ocean rower Maud Fontenoy hit “terre” in Tahiti, completing the first Pacific crossing by a woman. The numbers? 6898 klics (TWC refuses to do mileage conversions anymore, it’s time to join the rest of the world. Okay, I’m too lazy…) in a blazing fast 72 days. That makes Mad Maud the first woman to row both the Atlantic and the Pacific. What’s next? She’ll want to eat some steak frites and buy a new IPod. But it’s obvious that the Indian Ocean awaits…

Maud Finds Tahiti: “I’m buffed, bronzed and bra-less. Wonder if I’ll get any decent dates while I’m here…”

“That was fast…”