Day 17 – Christmas

The crews are continuing to enjoy the strong weather helping to give them a real shove towards Barbados. Ocean’s Elite have been pushing a little further south with the aim to hit more stable and favourable conditions later on in the trip, whereas Rowing Stones have been more focussed on improving their pace. It’s great…

Ocean row boat – Endurance has had a pretty torrid time of it over the last few months but things are turning around for the better. After spending 10 months at sea drifting across the Atlantic Ocean and being rescued by a Bahaman man out on a fishing trip. She has been cleaned up, repaired…

The weather is being rather well behaved at the moment. Not too strong but still in a helpful direction. We feel sure that despite their distance from land and loved ones that the post Christmas party is still going on for our teams. The distances the crews have rowed towards Barbados has definitely gone down…

The wind conditions for yesterday and today are such that both crews are able to make some really decent mileages, which is great. The forecast is also looking fairly stable throughout the next week, with things only looking like they’ll change around Christmas Eve. This is pretty much of what we’d expect and strong following…