Marlow, Bucks, UK. 24th January, 2015. Olympic and Paralympic rowing medallists including Naomi Riches, Heather Stanning and Katherine Grainger join members of a Coxless Crew at Marlow at their boat naming ceremony. The Coxless Crew is a team of four women who have given up their jobs to undertake an epic six-month 8,446 mile adventure rowing their boat Doris across the Pacific ocean from Sanfrancisco to Cairns in Australia, to raise funds for charities Walking With The Wounded and Breast Cancer Care. PICTURED: Paralympian Naomi Riches poses with Laura Penhaul, Emma Mitchell and Natalia Cohen
Four British women, Natalia Cohen, Laura Penhaul, Emma Mitchell and Isabel Burnham plan in April 2015 to begin an epic six month crossing of the Pacific Ocean unsupported, in their pink rowing boat Doris. Their voyage departing from San Francisco, will see them making only two stop-offs, the first at Hawaii and the second at Samoa before their final leg to Cairns in are undertaking their challenge to raise funds for Walking with the Wounded and Breast Cancer Care charities, and invite the public to "buy a mile" of their 8,446 mile an event in Marlow, they offered the public an opportunity to see their boat. Several Olympic rowers were on hand to lend their support including Olympic gold medallist Heather Stanning, Paralympian Naomi Riches and women's multiple Olympian rowing legend Katherine Grainger.
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Location: Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United KIngdom
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