The Boat Show of Barcelona hosted the launch of “I knew that plane was easier …” The author, Peter Ripol Sampol, describes the journey of the only Spanish team in the race for world’s longest rowing across the ocean Atlantic.
The Barcelona Boat Show hosted the 5th of November, in its 50th edition, the book “I knew it was easier air …”, the exciting story of a sea voyage of more than two months, crossing Rowing the Atlantic and without any assistance.
The book presentation ceremony took place on the opening day of the event, at 18.00 at the fair Gran Via, as part of the proposed activities planned to commemorate the celebration of the Boat Show, in a very special edition at its 50 anniversary.
Among a long list of guests, highlighted the participation of Manolo García BermúdezCoach of the Spanish Federation multichampion Rowing and Olympic world and Spain and one of the coaches of the team that participated in the voyage described in the book. Also special guest Phil Scantlebury, come exclusively from England, transatlantic rower renowned engineer and coach the team of Peter and Francis Korff Ripol. With the presentation was opened by selling the book, which is already available in selected stands of the Boat Show in www.atlanticoaremo.com website and on Amazon.com, including ebook version soon.
The book tells the exciting first-person sea voyage, a true story that has played out in the ocean, where the author describes the adventure that 10 years ago, gave him moments of suffering and exhaustion, while leisure and spirituality . Through his personal view, Pedro Ripol described throughout the 247 pages of narrative techniques of navigation, survival, personal growth, control in extreme situations, the whole purpose of life inspired by the thought that comes between the lines of the book: Follow your heart, never betray you.
In the book, organized into chapters and subchapters, is a transcript of the author and chronic Francisco Korff, his companion on the journey, sent every day via the internet from the boat Martha Dos. Furthermore, the transcript also contains a selection of emails more interesting than the team received along the route at sea.
Adventure, risk, and reflection, but also Peter Ripol reflected through his words moods, feelings and intimate remarks, which, as explained in the preamble, “I prefer to transcribe in full, such as felt and wrote in the time, not subtract one iota of its authenticity. ”
The reason for the adventure was to participate in an international regatta that started in the Canary Islands (Tenerife) and culminated in the Caribbean (Barbados), which was go to row 2835 miles (5,250 kilometers), without external support.
The route, which took place in 2001, was extended for 61 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes to board a small rowboat seven meters long and two wide, the Martha Dos. As reported by the author in the same book “did not have any experience in this type of marine adventures.”
This adventure took Peter and Francis Korff Ripol to become the first Spanish team that ended the world’s longest race, the first Spanish-speaking overseas paddlers. Thus, the team was awarded Honorary Patronage of HRH the Prince of Asturias. In addition, the team is cooperating with the Association of St. Lazarus, dedicated to helping children with cerebral palsy in the Martha Project Two, which gave name to the boat used to cross the Atlantic.