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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...
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The Grandads
- Feb 17, 2019
- 3 min
THE FINISH LINE!
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...
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The Grandads
- Jan 31, 2019
- 3 min
Fifty days and fifty nights!
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,...
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The Grandads
- Jan 18, 2019
- 2 min
Over the hump(back)...
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...
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The Grandads
- Jan 10, 2019
- 3 min
Scrub-a-dub-dub...
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...
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The Grandads
- Dec 30, 2018
- 2 min
Eat, Sleep, Row, Repeat...
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...
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The Grandads
- Dec 21, 2018
- 2 min
Calling boat number 5...
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...
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The Grandads
- Dec 15, 2018
- 2 min
Day three: All at sea
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...
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The Grandads
- Feb 12, 2018
- 3 min
Grapnels, Grab-Bags and GMDSS: Learning the language of the sea
Going back to school in your sixties is an 'interesting' experience (especially when everyone else in the classroom is half your age) but...
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The Grandads
- Jan 24, 2018
- 3 min
So how do you train a Grandad to row across the Atlantic...?
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...
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The Grandads
- Jan 10, 2018
- 4 min
First things first... a boat!
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...
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The Grandads
- Jan 1, 2018
- 2 min
It all started in a pub in Wiltshire...
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...
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