Ocean ROWING challenge?!

Firstly, a massive congratulations to the Unfinished Business girls! Go girls! We are very much impressed. When we were in La Gomera with pre race nerves and anxiety of what lay ahead setting in, you girls were a great reassurance. If you were willing to come back to attempt it a second time, well it couldn't be that bad we thought! We hope you enjoyed & savoured the moment, big time.

As you've guessed from the very slow movement of our little blue blob on your PC screen, the last few days has been tough, the winds are pretty keen to push us towards Trinidad or even Brazil at times. We've decided really not to go below 17 degrees north, but when we use all our physical might to battle it, it takes a lot of willpower not to drop down to get an extra mile or two in (Sally & Clint, we are trying to listen, honest!). So onwards & westwards as they say!

Well now that we have been at sea 54 days, I feel like I have enough of an insight to say that Woodvale Challenge have got it all wrong. This is not an ocean rowing challenge at all, ... in my opinion it should be called any of he following; ocean course navigating challenge... ocean weather guessing challenge... ocean eating challenge ... ocean bucket balancing challenge ... ocean even suntan challenge ... ocean hygiene challenge ... ocean butt pain challenge ... ocean dry day challenge ... ocean smiling challenge ... ocean sleep deprivation challenge!
So you see, the rowing part is the easy part, and I wonder whether Woodvale could be sued for inaccurate advertising!! (only joking Simon ;))

Thank you again for all your messages of encouragement and support. To be still following our every stroke for nearly 8 weeks is very much appreciated, please keep them coming! 831 miles still seems like an awful long way to go when you're battling a mile an hour and you have no chocolate or haribo men left on board ... that grab bag supply of chocolate is sooo getting it soon ....

p.s if anyone has a contact with the weather gods, PLEASE have a word!