Far to Go? You decide
Row Across The Pond
Richard Hoyland and Steve Coe
Wed 17 Mar 2010 22:18
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Steve
Not far to go,,, mmmmmmmmmmmm
Just another perspective,, and not meaning to sound ungrateful
for all the moral support we are getting but....
has anybody reading this blog ever walked in one hit the
distance from London to Cardiff and back again?
Thats the approx' distance we have left to row.. I
am trying desperately hard to put a positive spin on the amount to travel,
and relative to the amount we have done so far (approx 2500miles) it
is not much. But, from where I am sitting, I can't
help thinking it is still a long way to row.
We await with baited breath the weather that is long long
overdue,, We have become so sceptical, we just refuse to believe it and prepare
ourselves for continued unassisted rowing,,,,
thats a real downer of a blog,,, but dont worry I am feeling
just great,,,
ps..
Fish are jumping tonight..
Water temperature is a cool/warm 20c and tastes great
(honestly)after being sqeezed at great pressure through our Katadyn water maker
to remove the salts. Also, now tucking into our spare food
rations.
Time for tea so gotta go,, thinking of you all back home and
missing you ,,,
Rich....
Here's my spin on the distance to go...I can almost smell the
coconut oil in the suntan lotion ;-)I'm always one to look at the data that I
record in our log book time/lat/long/distance to Antigua and draw
conclusions (don't tell Steve). We've had periods where we have knocked
distances like this out of the park in the mere blink of an eye and I feel
it's within our grasp. The data has been squirreled away for weeks now and
that's what convinces me that I will see my wife an kids by the 24th
on the quayside at Nelsons Dockyard in Antingua when a sun-tanned hairy
beardy thin ginger man gets off this little yellow boat and re-enters reality.
Setting myself up for disappointment? perhaps...being
foolishly optimistic? perhaps...guilty on wanting to see this end? oh
yes.
No I don't think that we will get perfect trade winds to bkow
us home in 48hours...more of the same perhaps, but even with this..I will see my
family and that's the main thing :-)
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