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Last Updated: Wednesday, 5 May, 2004, 13:17 GMT 14:17 UK
Mother and daughter row Atlantic

Sally and Sarah Kettle
The Kettles arrived in Barbados on Wednesday after 106 days
A mother and daughter team have rowed thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean in an epic 105-day journey.

Sarah and Sally Kettle spent more than three months at sea rowing the ocean to raise money for an Epilepsy charity.

Sally, 26, from Brighton, and her mother Sarah, 45, from Northampton, finished their journey from the Canary Islands to Barbados on Wednesday.

Sally told the BBC the thing she was looking forward to most after finishing their gruelling trip was a curry.

It's absolutely fantastic to be on Barbados, it's a most incredible feeling
Sally Kettle

The Kettles are the first mother and daughter team to finish the Ocean Rowing Society's Atlantic Regatta, while Sarah is the first grandmother to ever row an ocean.

Sally had previously attempted to the row across the ocean with her partner Marcus Thompson.

The mother and daughter team set off on 20 January in their 24ft marine plywood boat, Calderdale - the Yorkshire Challenger.

Sally and Sarah Kettle
Sally and Sarah rowed 3,000 miles across the Atlantic

The event is one of the world's toughest rowing challenges and covers 3,000 miles to the West Indies.

On Wednesday, BBC South East Today was in Barbados to welcome the pair on to dry land.

Sally Kettle said: "It's absolutely fantastic to be on Barbados, it's a most incredible feeling.

"It was brilliant, mum's got the best sense of humour, we had such a laugh as we went across.

"Three-and-a-half months is a long time but it didn't feel like that when we were out there.

"I'm desperate for an Indian, a curry - all we did was think about food the entire way across because we didn't have much of a selection, so hopefully we'll get some food in this afternoon.

"We ate chilli con carne and lots of boiled rice, we were sick for about a month and very nauseous - all we did was eat boiled rice and rice cakes."




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