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Harbo and Samuelson –
The record for rowing the Atlantic is currently held by 2 Norwegians and was set in the nineteenth century. George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen were Norwegian Fishermen who emigrated to the USA in around 1890. They set off from NY on June 6th 1896 in an 18 foot open rowing boat called the FOX. They arrived at the Scilly Isles on the 1st August.
MUST credit Gibsons of Scilly.