Bonkers. Atlantic rowers......

[prv]

What are people missing here about 'they have two safety yachts in company'?

You hadn't posted that when Andrew made his point.

Pete

 

[Impaler]

Ha ha! I met Peter in London on Remembrance weekend, it’s a serious challenge with masses of work involved. Good luck to all teams and hopefully they’ll raise a lot of money for their charities. We called the green hats or berets ‘cabbage heads’, but not usually to their faces! ?

I kinda got that from the colour of their hats. The guys I met had green ones, which for a bit, matched their faces....

Mine was rather blue.

 

[macd]

A few years ago I was on night watch somewhere between the Cape Verde's and Antilles when the VHF crackled into life. It turned out to be a single-handed rower, trying to raise a much bigger yacht than mine. When they didn't respond, I did. Apart from anything else, it was a welcome relief from boredom.

It turned out that the rower had experienced problems and was way down the field (three weeks out from the Canaries and barely halfway across). His satphone was down. Did I have one and could I assure his wife he was OK?

No problem. Except how do you introduce yourself to a worried wife in the middle of the night from mid-Atlantic? Debrett is of little help in such circumstances. I began by bawling "Everything's OK..."

 

[capnsensible]

You hadn't posted that when Andrew made his point.

Pete

Try reading my post #8 in response to his post #5..........

 

[Blue Sunray]

As for 'being with Haslar'..... in such matters I prefer Arthur Ransome's outlook "If duffers...... If not duffers...."

Hasler - the bloke, not Haslar - the hospital.

 

[capnsensible]

I had my tonsils taken out in Haslar Hopital. Just sayin.....

 

[Blue Sunray]

More coverage:

https://www.forces.net/news/rowers-...UUVhfFXm51HYK3wLRxdjbr_u29VdKZixbp7csgNCA8yC8

 

[harry potter]

Wishing them a calm sea and following winds tomorrow, today the winds are all over the place.


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[capnsensible]

I was just looking at exactly that on an ipad. Switched over to a laptop and saw this.... spooky!

Am following the progress of Blue Rower. Friend of a friend. Earlier this year he was in an unsupported crewed boat rowed from Portugal to Cuba..... guess he likes it! :encouragement:

 

[KellysEye]

We were in English Harbour, Antigua when the first rowing boat arrived others took a week or more to arrive.

 

[laika]

Wrong ocean so a bit off topic but in case anyone is bored over Christmas and has Amazon prime, on a friend's recommendation I watched "losing sight of the shore" last week, a documentary about 4 women rowing the pacific