This question is almost always asked first and I find that so interesting. Of all the things one might ask, the first thing is generally about the toilet. Well, there is no actual bathroom on board. We have a bucket and we toss it overboard when we are done. Be courteous, and rinse the bucket carefully before putting it back on the deck should be a motto.

This question is almost always asked first and I find that so interesting. Of all the things one might ask, the first thing is generally about the toilet. Well, there is no actual bathroom on board. We have a bucket and we toss it overboard when we are done. Be courteous, and rinse the bucket carefully before putting it back on the deck should be a motto.

We eat freeze dried food, like in mountaineering or the military. You can just add hot water and poof you have a meal. They are surprisingly not bad. We use a little device that heats water called a jet boil and generally the guys who aren’t rowing make the meals for the guys that are.

We eat freeze dried food, like in mountaineering or the military. You can just add hot water and poof you have a meal. They are surprisingly not bad. We use a little device that heats water called a jet boil and generally the guys who aren’t rowing make the meals for the guys that are.

We can radio any boat in the area for assistance. Maritime law requires that they help if they can. We are in a fairly high traffic transAtlantic lane and there is probably someone within 50 miles or so at all times.

We have a small cabin at the bow and stern of the boat. The two people in bow swap back and forth while the two people in the stern swap back and forth between rowing and resting. It’s surprisingly not bad. You’d be surprised how well you sleep after rowing for a couple of hours

That hopefully won’t happen, but the boat is build to weather some pretty big waves. When you seal it up it becomes air tight and and roll with the waves like a cork. If it gets really bad, we can put out an ocean anchor that will slow us down and keep us from tumbling.

12. We take shifts. If the first shift is at noon, it would be for two hours and then swap. It would look something like this:

Noon – 2PM A-Team (working title)

2PM – 4PM B-Team (working title)

4PM – 6PM A -Team

6PM – 9PM B -Team

9PM – MidN A- Team

MidN – 5AM B- Team

5AM – 10AM A -Team

10AM – Noon B-Team

We have been asked not to feed them.

Birds, lots of birds even out in the middle. Whales, they are very curious and will come right up to the boat. Maybe swordfish, sharks, possibly orca, but hopefully a Narwhal, our mascot.

It’s roughly 3,500 miles and we hopefully going to go 3.5 MPH for 24 hours a day. It would only take us 41 days. 3.5 MPH is tougher than you might think. Anything can happen with current, weather, exhaustion…we are expecting it will take us 45 days.

We are planning on landing at Big Ben on the Thames in London.

Life is a series of adventures and well this is a big one. We will literally be challenging ourselves against the elements and ocean and well for a certain type of person, this is our drug of choice. Plus, it is a great way to support various causes that mean a lot to us. If people find this interesting and take notice, maybe they will support the things we care about. (cough cough Veterans for me.)

You will be able to follow us online from this website, we will do call ins, and send home pictures and maybe even some video. Plus when it is all said and done, we are looking to make this into a documentary – more details to come.

This boat was build by Spindrift. They are a boat manufacturer out of Washington State. Here is a link. https://www.spindriftrowing.com/