Corkmen cross Atlantic in 57 days

JANUARY and February are good months to get away from it all. For two Corkmen, this meant spending two months rowing 5,500km across the Atlantic.

Not quite a holiday, but yesterday, Peter Williams, 26, from Douglas and Mike Jones, 29, from Cobh, were finally enjoying the fruits of their labour in sunny Barbados.

Having started out in Agadir in Morocco in early January, the two Corkmen were part of a six-person crew which spent just under 58 days crossing the Atlantic solely under the power of their own steam.