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