TRANSATLANTIC rower Lee Spencer spent the morning with Horrabridge Primary School children on the day that his specially designed boat was delivered to Gibraltar ahead of the challenge.

Amputee Lee, 48, from Horrabridge, aims to row across the Atlantic from Gibraltar to Venezuela. He sets off on January 18, as most people are taking down their Christmas decorations, with everything he needs — food, clothes and water — inside his specially designed boat ‘Hope’.

Lee is aiming to secure two Guinness World Records — the world’s first physically disabled person to row solo and unsupported across an ocean from mainland to mainland and the fastest solo unsupported row from mainland Europe to Mainland South America.

Lee spent time chatting to children about his row and they even got the chance to see his special ‘rowing leg’ which is all ready for his ocean adventure. Picture by James Bird