Mullering Saturday and Mothering Sunday 17:08.000N 54:54.000W
Row Across The Pond
Richard Hoyland and Steve Coe
Sat 13 Mar 2010 22:26
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Rich....
You can't make this sort of stuff up! Today we have been
singled out across the whole Atlantic to get our own weather system. In the
middle ocean there is one wind rose that is going in the wrong directions...and
guess what, we are exactly on it...most crews head merrily to Antigua with an
Easterly and we sit with a 10/15knot Southerly and some Westerlies last night!
We row on to meet or families in two weeks time, pretty please to the wind gods
that we can have a fairer passage over the next few days.
Last night was a prime example of our bad luck...I'm sitting
on the oars in the pitch black, but it's a lovely night, when I hear a very
disturbing noise. Sounds like a thousand espresso machines have been
suddenly turned on...and the penny drops that it's a rainstorm
and the water is torrential...it dumps it's tonnes of water down then disappears
as quickly as it came. The build up to this had been an hour of headwinds and
it's legacy was further headwinds...needless to say we were on the
anchor again!!
BUT, we have decided to get there in the next two weeks, so
let battle commence :-)
Tomorrow is a rather important day and I wanted to send out a
big shout of thanks and a big hug to my mother...as Sunday is Mothers Day. I
look back on all the inspiring holidays, activities and adventures we had with
my parents with a smile and can honestly say...that it's your fault that I'm
stuck out here ;-) (joking) As children we always had the kind of attention that
kids need, we learned to sail, canoe, climb etc.... and I have to blame my
childhood for letting me feel that I could succeed at such a challenge as
this one...thanks to Mrs Hoyland sat over in Sutton. We will catch up
soon when I return shortly.
Also a big thanks to Louise for the last 3 months you have
been mother and father to the family and have done a fantastic job. The baton is
nearly ready to be passed back and you can have a much needed break
:-) Hope the guys give you breakfast in bed. Likewise for Clair over in the
Coe household...you have both been an inspiration in how you have carried
on without us...happy mothers day, hope the Coe boys get you breakfast in
bed.
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