10 Minutes!    17th June 2005 12:00 BST
"10 minutes, 10minutes" pause "10 minutes , hello, 10 minutes" now shouting "10 minutes, wake up, are you alive?" then from the cabin comes a neandathal type grunt! This

IN THE MIDST OF A DEPRESSION    16th June 2005 12:00 BST
News came from our weather man yesterday that by evening we would be sitting smack in the middle of a depression. Some confusion amongst our North Eastern boys as to what this meant sent Nige and Geor

DIY    15th June 2005 12:00 BST
At 2:30am this morning while our hands accumalated blisters on the blisters an experience not to dissimilar to that of placing your hands in a frying pan we came up with the idea that we should try an

A TIME FOR REFLECTION    14th JUNE 2005 1200BST
After such a tough 24 hrs we finally got back underway yesterday AM. The rigours of the previous night had not only taken it's toll on some of our kit, now patched up and ready to go, but also on

Epic 13th Day!    13th June 2005 12:00 BST
I don't know how many times I heard some old and wise person usaully the parents tell me they wished they had worked harder at school. Well right now Iam wishing to that I had worked harder for

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS FROM THE NORTH ATLANTIC    12th JUNE 2005 1200bst
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

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