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First Australian women's pair to complete Atlantic challenge had never rowed on ocean before signing up

There are few feats more daunting than rowing across an ocean, as a tiny dot isolated on the unruly open water.

That didn't stop two women with no experience of ocean rowing from taking on the 5,000-kilometre Atlantic crossing — and succeeding.

It was a journey years in the making, combining waves as high as a building, Hawaiian shirts, mould, low spirits, a lot of determination, and a shaved head.

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