Elderly rowing from New York to London

- The 70-year-old Steinhoff step Sunday in New York in his rowboat and hopes again to get off after about three months in London. The 'elderly' Noor then, depending on the flow, a journey of between 4500 and 5400 kilometers sit on.

Hoff in the footsteps of the Americans of Norwegian descent George Harbo and Gabriel Samuelsen, who has made the journey in 1896 in their boat Fox. They were the first who finished the feat. Since then, the tour is repeated by only a handful of people who were all a lot younger than the Norwegian.

Stein Hoffs boat measuring just over 7 meters and is appropriately called Fox II. On board there is navigation, radio and drinking and cooking utensils. If something goes wrong, the retired doctor Hoff may resort to his satellite phone.