Rowing 3,000 Miles Across the Atlantic Ocean

Thank you for all the lovely comments about this 🙏🏼 Here are some answers to common questions and comments below: 1. BUCKETS We had 3 😉 2. SEASICKNESS Fortunately, I do not suffer from seasickness. Neither did Ros. But Kate and Kirsty did quite badly, despite taking medication. They still showed up for each rowing shift and gave it their all. Major respect to them 🙌🏼 3. STAYING ON COURSE We had an autopilot (sometimes known as an autotiller) which steers the boat and keeps it on course. It's very handy but also very unreliable as stops working often. We would keep our eyes transfixed on the compass and bearing screen on deck to ensure we were always heading in the right direction. 4. CAPSIZING The boats are made to self-right if they capsize. They flip up the right way in a matter of seconds. Fortunately, we never experienced it. 5. WIND & CURRENTS The wind and ocean currents are in favour of this crossing some of the time. Saying that we still had to row in order to make good progress. A boat left to drift would take around 120 days to land west of its start pointing - whether that be Antigua, or crashing into Guadeloupe or a similar island. I write this as some have suggested that the rowing aspect of this challenge is negligible. 6. PERIODS They still happened. We just got on with it. It was no worse than poo-ing in a bucket. PMT didn't exist because we were focused on other things. 7. FRIENDSHIP We remained friends after the challenge, however, I do not see them much as we live far away. Me and one other ended up working for the race afterward which was pretty cool. If you have any other questions please ask them in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer them 👍

"It doesn't matter how slow we go as long as we are going forward, we are making progress." 💛

this is pretty much once-in-a-lifetime journey. Hats off for the ladies!

She should really be named Laura Do

Physical endurance is one thing (very impressive in itself by the way), but with 4 people on such a small boat I'd consider the mental/emotional stress to be the more serious issue. Especially if you had trouble with sleeping and with all the other constraints. Amazing, well done!

"Everyone can do this" Yeah, nah. I've done some pretty hard (and badass, if I may say so myself) things in my life, but they all absolutely pale compared to this. This isn't negative energy or anything, I'm just trying to properly convey how insanely impressive this feat is. You guys deserve every bit of praise possible. Well done

I wonder how you all adjusted back to a normal full night's sleep. The first night must have been amazing - snuggling into a cool bed, knowing you would wake up when you wanted to - and not before!

I’m a mountain climber and for some reason YouTube recommended me this video. I’m lost for words. Not just the feat accomplished but the valuable lessons you manage to nail down so correctly and present to us in neat bullet point fashion. I’m showing this to my 5 year old daughter, I’m a man and would like to thank you for inspiring this whole family

I really love the internet. 35 years ago, odds are we would of never heard your amazing story.

Watching this couldn’t have come at a better time in my life, I’m a 43 year old concretor from Australia and I have been going through a difficult period for the last 4 years. This has really helped me to realise that we are capable of change and success in our lives but it helps to have a team to get there. I’ll start with myself and stop pushing people away and build a team❤️.

When you reached the finished line I legitly got teary-eyed. This was amazing! Congrats to all of you!

It's not just about rowing. Very precious message for life : you're moving slow but you're faster than those those who have stopped rowing and drifted backwards !!! As long as you are moving forward you are making progress and you will certainly reach your goal !! Good encouragement for us !

Absolute mad women on that boat! Super inspiring to see how you cope, even when things gets hard. "It'll pass".. I just noticed that the company I work for was one of the sponsors for the trip. It makes me quite happy that they supported you.

This is another level of mental and physical fitness and capacity! What an amazing adventure and challenge with such strong attributes you can carry into your every day life! Amazing!!!!

I did the ARC+2018 and ended up on Antigua. I thought I did a challenge of a lifetime until I saw the rowers coming in to Antigua.😊I was there when you arrived. Respect!!!

I just stumbled across this video and I have to say, it is so inspiring! As a college student, I tend to experience a lot of procrastination and fall into some frustrating lazy habits sometimes. I think if you four strong women can do this, then I have what it takes to get simple tasks done! Thank you so much for sharing this and all of the motivation/lessons that you got from it, I am already applying some of these mindsets to my life!

Wow, this was so inspiring and heartwarming! As someone who struggles a lot with depression, sometimes simplifying what I need to do to help myself get out of a rut - messages like “just get on with it”, show up for shift, keep rowing, it’ll take as long as it takes - is honestly what I need. And being surrounded by people I love is one of the most important things through that. Thank you for sharing!

When you were talking about the headwind and how you felt demotivated because you had only gone 4 miles even with all of the effort you put in, but then you realized that those that gave up lost 10 miles, effectively giving you a net of 14 miles, and then you said "it doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you're moving forward and making progress" I started to tear up. It's so hard sometimes to see one's own progress when you only compare it to yourself, but when you zoom out and see how far you've gone in comparison to those that give up, it can make a world of a difference

The first two men to row across the Atlantic left from New Jersey in a modified lifeboat. Somewhere along the way a ship spotted the “Survivors” and stopped and picked them up! They protested but the Captain thought they were crazy from thirst. It took hours to convince him to let them go. The ship was going back to USA so they lost that time snd had to re row the distance.

Your story of victory made me cry. You all said this too shall pass. Thank you. Love you all.