CLEVELAND, Ohio - While some of us have visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads and others are dreading the slog to the attic or basement to find all those holiday decorations, four athletes with a sturdy Cleveland connection are ready to row the Atlantic .

You may recall in August, we profiled four former collegiate rowers who call themselves Team Seneca Navy . The crew of David Ranney (Cleveland), Anthony Carella (Vaughan, Canada), Moritz Marchart (Stuttgart, Germany) and Ryan Mulflur (Hingham, Massachusetts) gathered in Cleveland to train this summer on Lake Erie.

Related: Lake Erie becomes proving ground for Team Seneca Navy’s 3,000-mile Atlantic rowing challenge

Team Seneca Navy will push off from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands today (Dec. 12) and row

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