Atlantic. Done!
After 50 days 8 hours and 55 minutes, Ocean’s Elite have successfully completed Mission Atlantic and have arrived into Barbados.
We’ll write more in this post later but for now all that needs to be done is for us all to celebrate a job well done by our veteran team.
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…
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