How long on average would it take to travel 600 miles in a rowing boat?

Question

I need to know for an essay where illlegal immigrants make the crossing in a rowing boat between Haiti and America..The distance is said to be around 600 miles..I just need to know a rough number of days..

Answer 1

for freaking ever!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Hummmmm! I would say they would not make it that far with only three people doing it. Unless the had lots and lots of food and water with them and all kinds of time to do it!

Answer 3

Are you going with the current or against it? How fast is the current? Do you have a headwind or a tailwind? Rarely is there no wind at all. What is the air temperature? This will affect how long a person can row. What type of "rowing" boat is being used? A standard 14 foot, wooden rowboat or a fibreglass or aluminium boat? The weights of each type are different. Are you asking how long it would take if the person rowed to his capacity or are there two rowers labouring in shifts? Your question is much too vague to answer.

Answer 4

If they could average 2.5 knots....or  (X1.15) 2.875  Miles an hour...which is reasonable...that would be 208.7 hours or 8.7 days...a little under 8 days and 17 hours.

Likely exhausted!!!

Answer 5

With a wooden rowboat, it will be slow, even with three people rowing.  If they can average a mile an hour, which would be fairly good, that would be 600 hours or about 25 days.

Answer 6

Atlantic rowers racing across the sea do about 2500 nautical miles in 55 to 60 days.

So say 40 miles a day for professional rowers in a specialist row boat would do 600 nautical miles in 15 days.

Allow  for the amateur status of the rowers and a poor craft  to equal the shorter imperial miles and a much kinder sea to the Atlantic so 15 days would be an absolute minimum time.

Hope that helps.