Adventures

Thank You all for supporting this dream, which lasted for 142 days. We are safe and sound on Brazilian ground. Very soon we will update You regarding story telling events, upcomming book, movie and of course next BIG dream

Yesterday the wind turned against us and started blowing in our faces with force of 20+ knots. Now we have been sitting on the sea anchor for 24 hours. We are waiting for a change that would let us touch

The ocean thought that we are approaching Rio too soon and turned on heavy North wind which would push us past Rio and into oil platform area, if we would let it. To prevent this unpleasant detour, we lowered our

If you are wondering about our food supplies, we can put you at ease - we have plenty. Firstly, during our seasickness initiation phase we ate approx. 1/3 of the norm, if even that. Secondly, The ships we met on

The rain was poring almost constantly, the head waves were washing over our deck and us with unenviable regularity. The boat was blown into unnecessary drift, so as the night gave way for the day we dropped out the sea

In spite of the back-stream that was tormenting us for two days, just after the sunrise we spotted a small piece of land on our wast and usually totally empty horizon. It was Martin Vas island only 600m wide in

The weekend turned to be quite colorful. Saturday evening came with head wind. We rowed our asses off, but the wind still pushed us back to Africa, so we put out our sea anchor to at least slow down our

There are no two identical days on the ocean. On Saturday morning, a 10cm long fish of unknown origin started to circle our boat. We kind of hoped that the fish would jump into our lap, but it had somewhat

Just to be clear - we are not sitting in our wetsuits. In fact, most of the time we try to get by with minimal clothing. When we started rowing after the second round of antibiotics, on the 3rd day the

Thank you all for your comments. In the next few days we will let you know about the new and revolutionary solutions for the pimple situation. Meanwhile, we will tell you about our “Līgo” bondfire or, to be more precise, our

Full moon is full moon even in the ocean, and it likes to play tricks. In our case, the tricks are headwind and headcurrent. One night we put out the sea anchor and in the morning found ourselves 5km closer

There is nothing quite as dramatic as the reality and for this reason 4 days ago we decided not to describe our situation in detail. We didn’t want to scare those closest to us. Doctors emotionlessly described our condition as life-threatening.

We are past 2000km mark and have maintained silence for a while, and for a good reason. We are kind-of on a pause right now, because the skin lesions that we fought 1,5 weeks before are back and even more

The alarm goes off and I wake up for my shift. It is 2:00 in the night. I get out of the cabin. I slowly stand up on the 40x80cm area behind the door and clench my fist around the

For two days now, Karlis is out of the hospital and enjoys rowing experience. The ocean was still as a table and small dolphins were jumping out of the blue surface. Tonight our not so good friend Wave Windy returned,

Be advised - don’t read this at the table! When the wind has finally calmed down and we can start rowing again, we are faced with yet another challenge - skin inflammations often called the furuncles. Despite the vastness of water

The waves stood in a formation and waved cheerful flags at us. Yes, the first 1000 in the ocean went by unnoticed. Those 11 unauthorized showers in one night were more noticeable. In the European campsites you often have to

It seams that the ocean is reading our blog, because the minute we called it calm and quiet it got angry. We spent the night balancing our boat on thin wave peaks and getting showered so often that we lost

The feeling of movement is indescribable. Centimeter after centimeter, meter after meter. The days are running by and forming weeks. We honestly can’t believe that soon we will start our third week of scooping ocean’s water with extensions of our

For now we are on schedule - we have rowed more than 550 km in 8 days and finally we are over the sea sickness - the patches really work. Every morning we are blessed by an amazing sunrise and every

The first day is like a graduation party - everybody dressed up in white shirts, best wishes for the new stretch of life, tears of affection and laughter as we leave the harbor and enter the windless vastness of the

Today we pulled in the sea anchor and finally could start rowing again. During the night we took turns on watch, to balance the boat and prevent it from turning over. Once in a while a friendly wave leapt over the

With this we officially wanted to announce our departure for cross Atlantic row from Luderitz, Namibia to Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games 2016. We will departure on 4th of May, 8:00 (Namibian time). This adventure is a mosaic of many helpful