Quirky World ... Courageous quartet complete epic ocean voyage

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ENGLAND: After nine months of battling enormous waves, sea sickness and the odd attack of flying fish, a group of female adventurers have completed one of the toughest expeditions on the planet — rowing more than 9,200 miles across the Pacific Ocean.

Early yesterday, Irish time, 257 days after they sailed under San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and pointed Doris, their pink 29ft boat, towards Australia, the Coxless Crew pulled into the harbour at Cairns where an honour-guard of small boats led them to their tearful families.