Rowing across the Pacific requires an enormous amount of planning, organisation, and training. Many who have attempted similar challenges have said they would have thought twice had they known what was really involved.

Theoretically you don’t need any experience, or specialist knowledge, before getting in a rowing boat and setting off across thousands of miles of open ocean. In fact, many people who decide to row an ocean

It doesn’t matter how worthy the cause, or how crazy the challenge being undertaken, raising money is always difficult. Now, understandably, it is more difficult than usual. We have been incredibly lucky in that our main sponsor,

2020 has so far brought us a pandemic, a lockdown, economic recession, political unrest, growing racial tensions and the creeping environmental catastrophe of global warming and ocean plastic pollution.