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Round Up: What we've been up to and what's next for our intrepid little rowing boat... Can you believe it's been a whole year since we packed up our Toffee C...

63 Days and 22 Minutes. 17° 0.46 N, 061° 45.88 W Distance to Finish: 0 NM Our new world record: The oldest pair to row any ocean (combined age 123 years) Row...

Day 50 16° 39.34 N, 051° 25.50 W Distance to Finish: 593 NM We're getting closer to the Grandchildren! With less than 600nm to go, Antigua is finally startin...

Day 36 17° 40.49 N, 042° 2.00 W Distance to Finish: 1130 NM It's been 36 days since we last saw land, or another human being, but we are now OVER HALFWAY! Th...

Day 27 17° 50.20 N, 035° 49.82 W Distance to Finish: 1484 NM This week we cried FOUL! A few days ago we started to lose speed again so we hopped over the si...

Day 18 19° 50.67 N, 029° 58.37 W Distance to Finish: 1814 NM So how was Christmas? We had a lovely day phoning our families and unwrapping surprise treats an...

22° 36.17 N, 024° 17.17 W Distance to finish: 2136.4 NM Nine days in to the 2018 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge and we are getting in to our stride. The ...

So here we are, three days in to the 2018 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge and we are... pretty knackered! A phone call with Ian, the race duty officer ass...

Going back to school in your sixties is an 'interesting' experience (especially when everyone else in the classroom is half your age) but in our case it’s no...

It's time to knuckle down to some serious physical training. We want to be in good shape by the time our boat arrives in late March so we can focus on gettin...

Ocean rowing boats are rather unusual vessels and there are very few people that build them. That's why one of our very first meetings was with Charlie Pitch...

We finally got round to writing a blog! What started as a crazy idea between two old friends last August has snowballed so quickly that we've barely had time...