Female rowing duo complete Pacific adventure

Miriam Payne and Jess Rowe averaged 50 nautical miles a day during the six-month journey

Two women have completed a gruelling six-month journey across the world's biggest ocean.

Miriam Payne from East Yorkshire and Jess Rowe from Hampshire finished their row across the Pacific from Peru to Cairns, Australia on Saturday at 18:42 local time (09:42 BST).

The duo say they are the first all-female crew to make the roughly 8,000 miles (13,000km) voyage across the Pacific nonstop and unsupported.

Ms Rowe said: "Those final few hours were brutal. The wind was pushing us off the channel, and we honestly thought we weren't going to make it."

The women crewed their boat in two-hour shifts, catching fish and growing their own vegetables to sustain themselves along the way.

Leaving Peru originally in April, they experienced rudder failure just 300 nautical miles into the journey and had to restart their attempt in May.

Ms Payne said they had only got to day six when they thought they might have to give up.

"Our power was dropping, the water-maker pipes burst, but after nine repairs, we managed a bypass and just limped along with little power for the rest of the crossing."

Paying tribute to her crewmate Ms Rowe said she "wouldn't have done it with anyone else", and admitted they were "excited to plan new adventures together".

The team, named Seas the Day, set off from Peru on 5 May, spent 165 days at sea and raised over £80k for the Outward Bound Trust charity.

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