ANDREW Abrahams swears he isn’t crazy.
“Definitely not crazy, just adventurous with a touch of craziness,” he says.
This defence of Andrew’s sanity is necessary because the 42-year-old Queenslander just rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. That’s right, this guy ROWED across an entire ocean. On purpose.
Andrew was competing in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, a 5,000 kilometre race which starts at La Gomera in the Canary Islands and finishes in Antigua.
More people have stood at the peak of Mt Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. That’s how difficult it is.
Andrew didn’t do it for personal glory. He was raising funds to help disadvantaged children back home in Queensland.
“I really wanted to to raise heaps of money for my charity, helping out disadvantaged children in our community, and thought that something this big would get a lot of donations,” Andrew tells news.com.au
The daring endeavour hasn’t drawn as many donations as Andrew would have liked, but he’s still managed to raise almost $6,000.
Oh, and he’s now officially the seventh fastest person out of 55 to have rowed solo across the Atlantic, having completed the voyage in 57 days. That’s not a shabby achievement.
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