Yacht with steering SOS aids Rowers with food SOS in the Atlantic

12:59 AM Wed 9 Feb 2011 GMT

'Papa Delta - food supplies washed away by a large wave in the Atlantic' . Click Here to view large photo

Call it serendipity or sychronicity, sometimes things happen for a reason. When the yacht White Whisper found their steerage had collapsed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, they thought they should let someone know they were disabled but continuing under a jury rig to their destination of Antigua. As they radioed Falmouth Coastguard, however, they didn't know they would soon be the life- savers. Also in the middle of the vast Atlantic, 800 miles from the Canary Island, two rowers, brothers Chris and Matthew Cleghorn, who were crossing the Atlantic to raise money for research in Parkinson's disease, were ...

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by Des Ryan