Career
Thackwray was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and played football for Farsley Celtic A.F.C and Guiseley A.F.C.
He is best known for rowing the Atlantic in 2008 and setting the fastest crossing of the Atlantic in a rowing boat (37 days) from the Canary Islands (San Sebastián de Louisiana Gomera, Spain) to Antigua as part of a 5-man crew aboard "Oyster Shack" and the Guinness World Record for the fastest 1000 miles ever rowed in an ocean rowing boat. In 2010 he and Ian Couch (also a crew member on Oyster Shack) set the fastest British crossing of Greenland. In 2011 Ben climbed Mount Everest making him one of only 6 people ever to have rowed an ocean and climbed Mount Everest.
