Redfish Lake Lodge employee is rowing across the Atlantic. Track her progress
Redfish Lake Lodge employee Taryn Smith didn’t chicken out.
Smith, whom the Idaho Statesman first wrote about in June, began her 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, Dec. 14. She is attempting to become the first American woman to complete a solo row across the Atlantic as part of the World’s Toughest Row.
The competition started in a race village called San Sebastian in La Gomera, which is part of the Canary Islands. The trek is expected to take between 60 to 90 days, ending at Nelson’s Dockyard in Antigua in the Caribbean.
Smith, and the progress of the other rowers, can be tracked at worldstoughestrow.com.
“I had sort of run out of things that really scared me, and when I heard about this, I thought, ‘Oh, that’s very intimidating,’” Smith told the Statesman in June. “It inspires a lot of fear, and that’s probably a good sign that I am going to learn and grow a lot.”
