Two Canadian women and their bold transatlantic crossing dreams

3:04 PM Mon 17 Jan 2011 GMT

'One Girl?s Ocean Challenge' Guy Perrin Click Here to view large photo

Alone on the high seas. By choice. The route: across the Atlantic Ocean. The engine: girl power. Montreal?s Myl?ne Paquette will pull more than 5,000 kilometres in a tricked-out rowboat ? yup, the kind with two oars and no motor ? from Gasp?, Que. to Les Sables-d?Olonne, France, this summer. Toronto?s Diane Reid will race, solo, in a small sailboat stripped down to bare-bones communication and navigation instruments ? as in sextant, pencil and paper ? from France to Brazil. This is about the time to wonder: 'Holy Magellan, are they insane?' 'The short answer is yes, probably,' says Reid, ...

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by Mary Ormsby