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 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…