Atlantic Four - Dispatches

Birthday Greetings fellow Ocean Rowerlow

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS FROM THE NORTH ATLANTIC
12th JUNE 2005 1200bst 4530.0000N,04000.0000W,0M
Happy birthday M ick Dawson, from your favourite [only] brother and Rob, Nige and George. Hope you like the card, couldn't think what to get you before we left so hid £500 somewhere in your house. Have fun.
Yesterday PM saw us back on the para anchor. Winds of 25knts from the South making it impossible to make any headway East. An uncomfortable night has seen the wind shift round to the North West still up around 25knts. Now with the wind and sea in our favour we're back on the oars for some truly amazing rowing. Huge seas behind us, the wind pushing us along, our job is to set the boat square to the sea and hitch an amazing ride. This is a day to remember for sure. With a forecast of more winds and bigger seas we don't know for sure how long we'll be able to stay at the oars, but at least conditions are pushing us East now. Long may it stay that way.

Yours Aye. The Crew.

WAVES AS BIG AS HOUSES!!! JUNE 11 2005 1200bst
Yes folks as big as houses, and we don't mean bungalows. Day 11 saw our biggest seas yet and they were truly awesome. 25knts of wind with gusts to 40 knts for 16hrs saw our sea state build to ama

Nobody said it was easy! 10th June 2005 12:00 BST
As the days tick by so to do our levels of energy. Since leaving St Johns eleven days ago we have been following a strict routine of two hours on two hours off with one three hour shift at night. Whet

DOUBLE FIGURES 9th June 2005 1200bst
Day 10 and we're into double figures. Another milestone on our adventure. One of the ways we keep ourselves focused is to constantly set short term targets, days, miles, degrees crossed etc. This