"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might… https://t.co/tqTCCCy7UP
Great to put our brilliant jottnar gear to the test! In the mountains or on an ocean, it fronts up to the challenge and conditions 🇬🇧
It was great to practice anchoring on our training weekend. We hope that we won’t… https://t.co/tnUpo735rM
It’s easy to focus on the difficulty of GB Row, but there’s a much greater challenge that affects all of us....♻️
We’re raising money for @justoneocean so that they can continue fighting against plastic pollution… https://t.co/xRK50TLwAb
New perspective 📷
It was great to get some different shots with the night vision! One of the many challenges in GB Row will be navigating through the busy shipping lanes around GB. This weekend was a great learning… https://t.co/NTAYwEV6J4
Our first video log!
Be sure to DM your questions and we’ll try and answer them in the upcoming video logs!
Big thanks to @jottnar for the Hemming Mid Layer Fleece! If you’re a rower looking to keep warm then look no further, these will be coming with us no doubt!
BREAKING: Scientists from around the world agree - the chemicals in plastic packaging are contaminating our food and putting our health, particularly the health of our children, at risk. #UNWRAPPEDproject#breakfreefromplastic#plasticpollutes
https://t.co/AtFgWzO5oQ
It was great to chat about the row on BBC Radio Devon, hopefully this media appearance will be one of many!
If you missed out interview, you can find a recording on our website: https://t.co/gjGPI1b9CM
We hope our call… https://t.co/aJG25G7cO6
Ready to carve our own legend...🇬🇧.
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Massive thanks to jottnar for sponsoring us and providing us with some fantastic kit for our epic challenge. We’re especially looking forward to testing out the Vanir LT trousers… https://t.co/h8Sv9JNZu1
Ready to carve our own legend...🇬🇧
Massive thanks to @jottnar for sponsoring us and providing us with some fantastic kit for our epic challenge. We’re especially looking forward to testing out the Vanir LT trousers on the boat!
#jottnar#carveyourownlegend
We want to become a world record breaking team, the youngest team to ever complete GB Row...
When we’re not training, we are all final year university students, 3 of us are at the University of Exeter. Over the past… https://t.co/qP3fqeN4AC
View from the cabin 📷
Pairs will be working in 2hr rotations, 2hr on/2hr off (24hrs a day), so that there is always someone rowing and the boat is always moving. Working being the key word, our 2 hours off isn’t… https://t.co/xVsoYv4SAA
Thanks to rx.wax for gifting these wax bars to help with our training!
These are great for protecting callused skin, which you get a lot of when rowing! We can’t wait to make these a part of our training… https://t.co/3j4l0paQJC
Getting comfortable with our new home!
This is the front cabin on our boat, and will be our home for 30 days (or so), as you can see it’s not very spacious!
#oceanrowing#uncomfortable#exeendurow#justoneocean
A map of AIS vessels around Exeter (automatic identification system)! And not every boat has this system!
Shows just how busy the coastline is, and how difficult navigation through these channels can be! But we’re up to the challenge! #oceanrowing#coast#marinetraffic#AIS
Unfortunately due to Storm Dennis, we were unable to safely row this weekend!!
Despite the weather, we managed to get some self administration practice in, and we slept in the boat. We’ll be looking to get out… https://t.co/jm8MtKDRfT