French rower sets record landing in Co Cork [Video]

Patrick Favre, a rower from France, shattered a world record on Thursday, August 29 when he landed in Baltimore, Co Cork after departing from Canada about a month earlier.

Favre, who set out from Trepassey in Newfoundland, Canada on July 28, was initially supposed to land back in his native France but was forced to change route due to weather.

Favre announced only earlier this week that he would be heading to “Ireland, home of the famous St. Patrick!”

In an update on Tuesday, he confirmed that Baltimore, on the southwest tip of Ireland, was his new destination. 

“This village in County Cork has the Irish name Dún na Séad or Dunashad (‘fort of the jewel’),” he said in a post on the Rame Océan Facebook page, which tracked Favre’s journey.

Rame Océan, which Favre is the president of, organizes logistics for ocean crossings by rowing boats.

Favre noted that …