A rower from Wales landed on St Mary’s on Wednesday night after setting a new transatlantic speed record.
Rob Munslow has become the fastest rower to cross the North Atlantic from land to land unassisted.
Rob, 28, from Monmouthshire, arrived on the Islands at 10.29pm, setting a record of 64 days, 10 hours and 48 minutes.
Falmouth Coastguard had been alerted that Munslow was about two nautical miles from Bishop Rock and seeking help to steer his Carnegie X-Stream boat into St Mary’s.
The lifeboat was launched and at about 10.30pm, a red flare revealed that the boat was aground near Gilstone, having missed the meeting point with the launch.
The lifeboat crew located Rob with its smaller Y boat soon after 11pm and towed it clear of the rocks and towards dry land.
Rob, who had capsized twice during the journey from St Johns, Canada, said he was overwhelmed to have finished the challenge.
He was met by his family and girlfriend at the quay after being at sea since June 27.
He raised money for Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice in Cardiff and Trinity Hospice in south London as part of the challenge.
“It’s been a fantastic journey,” he said.
An exhausted Rob posted the following message on his website today: I set a world record at 22:29 last night, the record “fastest solo unsupported crossing of the North Atlantic land to land”. I would like to tell all about it but right now I can barely summon the energy to climb the stairs up into the Harbour Masters Office here in the Isles of Scilly where I write these words. Therefore before I collapse through exhasution please be patient and I will put out a few more updates on my achievement very soon.