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Scottish brothers finish mammoth row across Pacific Ocean after 139 days

(www.abc.net.au)
80 points e2e4 | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 00:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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3eb7988a1663 ◴[31 Aug 25 02:11 UTC] No.45079726[source]▶
So many practical questions about how this worked. Sleeping, food/water (cooking the fish, seasonings?, did they have stretches where they failed to catch anything), boredom - did they have a radio/podcast library, how much rowing per day, how are the bowels after five months of hardtack and fish, how does your skin handle constant saltwater exposure without showering, etc

Also - I want to see a before photo. They all look pretty slim, but I imagine anyone would after five months of rowing and eating nothing but vitamins and fish.

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1. xarope ◴[31 Aug 25 09:54 UTC] No.45081916[source]▶
For talisker, most/all the rowers will have freeze dried food (store bought or self-made). The boats have a desalination plant (the boats have solar panels) so they do have fresh water, but only enough for drinking/eating, they would normally jump into the ocean to rinse themselves.

yes, they bring they own electronic devices, but you do have to be judicious in usage due to the aforementioned solar panels not being very big. Here's a picture (to be clear, this one used for the talisker, the ABC articles have a better image of the one specifically used by the brothers):

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmNq8z...