VENICE — Anna McLean can be spotted around area beaches in a strange looking boat.
She’s practicing for a 62-day row across the Pacific in an attempt to grab another Guinness World Record. It would be her third one, and second time traversing an ocean in a peculiar little vessel.
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Anna McLean sits on her brand new boat that she will be rowing from California to Hawaii with her best friend Jenny D’Anthony.
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A rain spout passes over the McLean siblings as they row across the Atlantic. A rainbow is spotted behind Anna as she rows.
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Anna McLean and her brother Cameron finish the World’s Toughest Row. They were the first brother-sister duo to ever row across the Atlantic.
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Anna McLean, front, and Jenny D’Anthony practice off of Venice in the Gulf of Mexico. They’re gearing up for the World’s Toughest Row in the Pacific.
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