A Kings Mountain resident is setting her sights on a record-setting rowing challenge that will take her and her team on a journey across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii, unsupported.
Rowing Oceans 4 Women is a four-woman team which will embark in June on a grueling 2,800 miles of open rowing across the ocean, battling waves, extreme temperatures, marine life encounters, seasickness, sleep deprivation and more.
Kaitlyn Piltzecker, who currently lives in Kings Mountain, is one of the women on the team.
She is joined by Hannah Byrd, of Tennessee, and sisters, Gabe and Megan Guefen, both of California.
Their boat, which is named Julie, after Gabe and Megan Guefen’s mother who died of cancer last year, was made by Rannoch Adventure in England and is a model R45 Elite ocean rowing boat. According to their website, this will be the boat’s second ocean crossing.
The team is taking on the World’s Toughest Row, a rowing race across the Pacific Ocean, and they hope to do it in record setting time.