Robin’s Blog Eight part 2? Thank you for the music part two Insane in the membrane insane in the brain. Time for more of those block rockin beats. No music was a predicament I hadn’t thought of, before the row. We had music during the day from the Fusion stereo, we could blue tooth or…
Robin’s Blog Eight? Thank you for the music, the sea she tech no prisoners. When embarking on a challenge like this you need to ensure you have the right tech with you to hopefully cover most eventualities. The crew of ‘No Great Shakes’ Row the Indian Ocean 2018 were extremely fortunate with finding our…
Robin’s Blog Seven ‘Opportunities’ (let’s make lots of money) or ‘Sacrifice’ ? Did you know.. .. Its a human sign, when things go wrong… OK I may have adapted that for my own use. However, it’s a good starting point for this blog. Confused? If I was to ask you to describe the words ‘human…
Robin’s Blog Six? Apologies, while everyone probably thinks I am sat on the beach with beer in hand relaxing, eating and having a good time we have actually been rushing about the island trying to organise shipping of the boat etc. Don’t get me wrong the island is a beautiful tropical paradise, we are having…
Day Sixty-Two of Indian Ocean Row After a week of sun, which has been a really nice change from wearing full wet weather gear, last night saw the winds increase and with it the wave size. The good news was that it was all in the right direction, the bad news was that the waves…
Day Sixty of Indian Ocean Row There have been many times during this challenge where it has felt like we are enduring as oppose to enjoying: the last few days have seen that change. Prior to that we seemed to have been living in our wet weather gear constantly and we’ve been going into the…
Day Fifty-Five of Indian Ocean Row Blog post from Barry. As we write this blog, we a nearing the “1000 miles left to row” mark, which is very exciting prospect. Coupled with a good overall seven day weather forecast, suddenly the idea that we can be in Mauritius within the next few weeks is very…
Day Forty-Eight of Indian Ocean Row The last few weeks has seen us hoping for big winds in the right direction and a large following swell. Well, 50 days in our hopes have been answered. The winds have been between 20 – 25 knots more recently have been up to 35-40 from time to time…
Day Forty-Four of Indian Ocean Row We are now only 50 miles from what will be the physical halfway point (1600m) to Mauritius. The distance we have covered is far greater than that but does not mean we will be out here for the same amount of time again. We hope to average about 50…
Day Thirty Nine of Indian Ocean Row The last few days have seen a few changes aboard No Great Shakes. We went from flying along past a ‘2000 miles to Mauritius’ sign posts to practically coming to a standstill. We trimmed the boat which means redistributing supplies we have left over evenly throughout…