<P> Anthony Smith and the Antiki crossed in 2011 . </P> <P> On June 13, 2003, the French rower Maud Fontenoy started an eastward crossing of the Atlantic from Saint - Pierre - et - Miquelon . She reached A Coruña in Spain on October 10, becoming the first woman to accomplish this feat . </P> <P> The Polish sexagenarian Aleksander Doba was the first recorded individual to complete a non-stop transatlantic crossing by kayak . He departed Dakar, Senegal on October 26, 2010 and arrived in Brazil 99 days later . </P> <P> The first East--West Atlantic Rowing Race took place in 1997 from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean . It now runs once every two years or so . </P>

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