Twice a day our crews are given the best seats in the house to some of the most beautiful shows around. Sunsets and sunrises are fully immersive experiences on the ocean with a 360° view of the sky. Dawn starts a long time before the sun rises. The sky will start to get lighter at…
Rowing Stones have had an absolutely unique evening on the water yesterday. We’ve been in contact with a crew who were sailing across the Atlantic departing from Gran Canaria just after Christmas and knew a few of the rowers in the Rowing Stones team. As a sailing boat they are a lot faster than the…
After three weeks at sea it’s so encouraging to see the daily mileages continuing to climb. Ocean’s Elite have been considering shaving their Captain Birdseye beards off but have decided against it…for now. They have been very vigilant about not complaining at any time about the struggles they’ve been facing but it’s clear that the…
It’s fabulous to see Rowing Stones really upping their daily mileages. In the last 24 hours they have had their most productive period to date and have made over 50nm towards Barbados. A combination of favourable weather, a boat which is getting lighter and lighter as the mountains of food get eaten and a crew…
We’re sure that we’re not about to jinx everything (but we’re crossing our fingers anyway) when we say that so far the crews have been relatively fortunate with the weather. Broadly speaking there hasn’t been extended periods when the crews have been stuck on the parachute anchor and been stuck for days on end with…
With steady, but not super strong, weather the crews have entered a period of what Rowing Stones have named as “gardening”. We are actually what we have called “gardening”, the feeling of ploughing the ocean that is extremely heavy manual work with the oars. Yesterday way a 49 mile day with a 2 hour NYE…
Happy 2025 to all our readers. New Year Celebrations onboard an ocean rowing boat can be a rather muted affair. Although this will of course be a unique celebration for all rowers and one which won’t be forgotten anytime soon. Rowing Stones were planning on cracking open one of the last remaining cans of coca…
Contemplating NYE on an ocean rowing boat is certainly a unique proposition. There’s not much to consider in terms of who to invite. We’d expect that every member of the crew will be awake to celebrate the arrival of 2025. Activities will be limited to rowing or calling family and friends at home and as…
It’s a marathon not a sprint was one of the main focusses we briefed the team on before departure. Unsurprisingly rowing for 12 hours a day and then there’s the real job of squeezing in eating, drinking, cleaning, getting dressed and undressed, sending messages home and resting / sleeping in the other 12 hours. This…
The topic for today has got to be unrelenting. For the crews this challenge doesn’t stop until they touch land in Barbados. Even when they’re not on the oars there’s no chance for the crews to really relax. Even when not rowing they will be thinking about their course, food, water, voltage of the batteries,…