Blue Monday?
Row Across The Pond
Richard Hoyland and Steve Coe
Mon 8 Mar 2010 21:01
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Steve...
My brain is cooked, so need some help with the
calculation. We had a question from one of our readers,, Louis from fetcham. How
many oar strokes do we take for each mile or have we taken so far,, I have
thought about this, but never applied enough brain to find out the answer, But
Louis and anybody else interested, here is your clue.
Each 1/10th of each mile, we take anything from 60 - 150
stokes,, there is an enormous varition simply because the wind makes it that
much tougher or easier to make ground.. so if you take an average of those two
figures, 105 and multiply by approx 2400 (miles rowed so far -- including wiggly
bits) this should give you apprx total no of strokes so far taken.. divide
by 2 and that will give per person figure.. I would imagine quite a
few..
A lot of left side rowing again today as wind is strong from
the south pushing us north. we can just about make headway, but better
than sitting ont the anchor going nowwhere or backwards even..
problem is body is taking a hamering all down one
side..
well, since having written the above, we have had to deploy
the anchor.. time to rest and repair again.. we will get there,... and i can't
wait..
still we will get some good weather one day.........
?????
Rich...
The winds from the South are easing off at 7:00pm and were
hoping that they will swing round to be Easterly over the course of the
night and give us a helping hand across to Antigua. No promises,
but if this materialises it may give our bodies time to heal before the
next onslaught.
Big news of the day, despite the low mileages we are now
in the 400's...494 miles to be precise...that's under 10 TRUs!...so could
be 2 - 3 weeks until the first cold beer???!!?? No hopes being pinned
on any date but it's nice to have a dream ;-) (yes, I do believe in Santa as
well)
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