Freedom is an Atlantic Rowing Race Boat, which was rowed across the Atlantic Ocean in a challenging race in 2001 by Doctors Patrick Weinrauch and Paul McCarthy, the first Australians to achieve this feat. Australian Team, the Freedom crew, claimed second place in the Ward Evans Atlantic Rowing Challenge. The Atlantic Rowing Race is an ocean rowing race from the Canary Islands to the West Indies, a distance of about 2,550 nm (2,930 statute miles or 4,700 km). The race was founded in 1997 and is the world’s toughest rowing event and is now held annually, starting each December.
Freedom raced in the Ward Evans Atlantic Rowing Race of 2001, which departed the port of Playa San Juan, Tenerife, and arrived at the port of Port St. Charles, Barbados. The race started in October 2001 with 36 teams. The winning boat was Telecom Challenge from New Zealand.
Freedom and Telecom Challenge were neck and neck for the first two weeks polling positions only 3 miles apart. Telecom Challenge eventually overtook Freedom and maintained their lead, winning the race after 42 days.
Sadly, Paul McCarthy was one of nine Australians to die when a Sea King helicopter crashed on the Indonesian island of Nias while delivering aid to the earthquake-devastated area in 2005.
Freedom – Atlantic Rowing Race Boat
- Name: Freedom – Atlantic Rowing Race Boat
- Launched: 2000
- Type: Purpose-built wooden with a fire-glass hull rowing boat
- Fittings: Water-maker, solar electronics, active radar reflector
- Length: 7.3m
- Width: 2.1m
- Propulsion: Rowing Oars
- Crew: 2
- Race Route: the Canary Islands to the West Indies
- Museum: Queensland Maritime Museum
A Tour of the Queensland Maritime Museum
- Ella’s Pink Lady
- Freedom – Atlantic Rowing Race Boat
- Forceful – Tugboat
- Carpentaria – Light Ship
- HMAS Diamantina
A Tour of Museums in Brisbane
- Queensland Art Gallery
- Queensland Museum & Science Centre
- MacArthur Museum Brisbane
- RD Milns Antiquities Museum
- Queensland Maritime Museum
- Commissariat Store, Brisbane
- Queensland Police Museum
A Tour of Museums in Australia
- Museums in Sydney
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Australian Museum
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Museum of Sydney
- Powerhouse Museum
- Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
- Nicholson Museum
- Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum
- Museum of Fire
- Museums in Melbourne
- National Gallery of Victoria
- Melbourne Museum
- Shrine of Remembrance
- Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
- State Library of Victoria
- National Sports Museum
- Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
- Old Melbourne Gaol
- Chinese Museum, Melbourne
- Jewish Museum of Australia
- Museums in Canberra
- National Museum of Australia
- National Gallery of Australia
- Australian War Memorial
- National Portrait Gallery
- Museums in Brisbane
- Queensland Art Gallery
- Queensland Museum & Science Centre
- MacArthur Museum Brisbane
- RD Milns Antiquities Museum
- Queensland Maritime Museum
- Commissariat Store, Brisbane
- Queensland Police Museum
- Museums in Perth
- Art Gallery of Western Australia
- WA Shipwrecks Museum
- Perth Mint
- WA Maritime Museum
- Fremantle Prison
- Museums in Adelaide
- Art Gallery of South Australia
- South Australian Museum
- Migration Museum, Adelaide
- Museums in Hobart
- Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
- Museums in Darwin
- Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
- Darwin Military Museum
- Australian Aviation Heritage Centre
Australian Proverbs and Quotes
- Australian Proverbs and Quotes
- Australian Aboriginal Sayings and Quotes
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“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
– William James
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