The Ship's Log
DAY 014
S 8.344673° , W 90.461748°
LACHLAN
Mantra of the day: finding comfort in the chaos.
We’ve ridden a low. It felt like it wouldn’t end; we were on a downward trajectory tha...
DAY 013
S 8.424858° W 89.421643°
JAMIE
I really feel myself attracting what I am thinking.
After a very frustrating day 12, with a multitude of technical issues, poor fuelling/hy...
DAY 012
S 8.583090° W 88.827403°
EWAN
Trying to do pretty much anything on board (other than rowing, perhaps) is a significant challenge - for a variety of reasons.
Firstly, you...
DAY 011
S 8.966368° W 87.493421°
LACHLAN
“SHARK!”
Ewan pointed excitedly over Rose Emily’s transom into the half dusk. A sizeable shark — I would guess 2-3 metres — was tracking ...
DAY 010
S 9.238511° W 86.350609°
JAMIE
Keeping the boat moving above 3 knots speed is a slog, we long for bigger, surf-able conditions. We had news today that this might well be us ...
DAY 009
S 9.407140° , W 85.477903°
EWAN
After several nights of being awoken by the dreaded bleating of the alarm clock, only three hours after having gone to bed, it had certainly no...
DAY 008
S 9.999091° W 83.391913°
LACHLAN
Miles rowed: 450 nautical miles.
No dramas overnight 18/04 into 19/04 apart from a swelteringly hot stern cabin — it feels like a sauna.
...
DAY 007
S 9.999219° W 83.390931°
JAMIE
'This too shall pass.'
A Tom Hanks quote that I keep returning to throughout the day and the night. For both the good times and the bad, they...
DAY 006
S 10° 7.63 , W 082° 45.62
EWAN
Now was the chance. The easing conditions that met us in the early morning, an hour before sunrise, was the sign we had been waiting for.
Fro...
DAY 005
S 10° 22.69, W 081° 48.35
LACHLAN
The wind on the right side of our faces died as we entered another dusk on Rose Emily. The sun plummets below the horizon to our backs. With...
DAY 004
S 10.812111° W 80.450514°
JAMIE
Somehow we had forgotten just how uncomfortable every aspect of life onboard an ocean rowing boat is. There’s no escape.
In many ways being ...
DAY 003
S 11.386670° W 79.202040°
EWAN
I awoke at 5am, with a faint glow of first light starting to appear in the sky behind us, upon which we looked back. The night had been better ...
DAY 002
S 11.874529° W 78.060404°
Reminded of the relentlessness of ocean rowing as we are reintroduced to this alien environment.
Autohelm setting issues through the night shift of ...
DAY ONE : DEPARTURE
S 12.030233° W 77.535873°
The past 36 hours have been intense to say the least. Final work on the boat, food packing, immigration, port clearance, final farewells and rounding ...
36 HOURS BEFORE DEPARTURE
12°04′17″ S, 77°09′45″ W
How do you act out a stainless steel M5 washer to someone that doesn’t speak the same language as you?
As was always going to be the case, things ha...
DAYS TO GO - 3
12°04′17″ S, 77°09′45″ W
Ahoy!
Welcome to the Ship's Log, our short and honest daily updates from the Pacific Ocean. This log entry is in a slightly different format and leng...
