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Update Week 8 - 1
At the end of day 49 we are still going pretty well in the right direction with a good speed with 57 miles in the last 24 hours leaving us with 269 miles to Cayenne. If our daily distances keep stable then we could arrive somewhere on Monday morning. Off course also depending on the local authoritie...
Update Week 7-2
As for the speed: Speed is what we need! But far more important than speed is our course and that is off course what you would understand a bit of an issue for us rowing rudderless backwards! Last week we got the weather update about a huge strong eddie (circular current) before Cayenne. The advice...
Update Week 7-1
Week 7 would have been the last full week at sea it that MTF shark wouldn’t have killed our rudder but that’s not the case. The crossing will take longer. How much longer I don’t know but if I look at the last few days a lot longer. We had lots and lots of rain. Everybody got cold wet in and outside...
Update Week 6 - Part 2
Everything went pretty well with 870 miles to go when disaster struck. A couple of days ago we were attacked by a huge shark and we thought to be lucky but late in the afternoon of day 38 we found out that we were not. Suddenly the autopilot kept on going out of course. When I removed the autopilot...
Update Week 6 - Part 1
We’re in serious problems! Team apple pie of oceanrower.eu is rowing from mainland Europe to mainland South-America with the aim to break 7 world records (fastest crossing from Europe to South-America, fastest 5-persons team from Europe to South-America, First blind rower from Europe to South-Americ...
Update Week 5
We’re going into week 5 on the Atlantic and as the skipper I decided that we extend the quarantine and a total lock down because of the corona virus for another 3 weeks. This has severe consequences for the people on board of Rose. As most of us are from the EU, we see ourselves as a floating enclav...
Update week 4
As we are coming closer to Cape Verde I’m coming more aware of chance that we will be refused cause of the corona virus. Daily we get updated about the situation in the world and it only gets more worrying. First Italy was hit hard ; now the title is taken over by Spain. At a certain moment hitting...
Day 21
On day 21 we spend another couple of hours on the watermaker and to our surprise the damage was not that much. For a while we could even had it running again but the main issue is a very small and simple issue but we are not able to fix that on the water. The metal pin where the positive power cable...
Day 20
Damn on day 20 the watermaker suddenly stops again. And this time sadly a more serious problem. To much resistance causing overheating and it became so hot that the plastic box where the electrics are in started melting. On land just a simple replaceable unit. Up here rocket science so the team has...
Day 19
On day 19 the watermaker refused to start again. Yes again cause since last year we gave this issue once in a while. A negative connection gets corroded. Last week it happened for the last time. Just disconnect, sandpaper it and connect it again. This time I thought it would be the same but it was n...
UFO sightings
In the end of the night of day 18 we had a really weird experience while we’re all pretty down to earth. Around 06.30 GMT Livar looked up in the air to the stars to starboard side and noticed something very strange. A line of lights as bright as stars where moving from west to east. Not shooting sta...
Update week 3: Refused to enter Cape Verde cause of corona!!!!
We were stopped by the police on the water and refused permission to go on land like a lot of sailing boats around us with even babies on board. Some sailing boats are going to sail back to Europe against the winds. I was here in a discussion group on vhf with the Dutch boats and they say if you go...
Update week 2
Team apple pie of oceanrower.eu is rowing from mainland Europe to mainland South-America with the aim to break many world records: Fastest crossing from Europe to South America, Fastest 5-persons team from Europe to South America, First blind rower from Europe to South America (Shane Ryan) First 2 o...
Update week 1 team Apple Pie
Ralph Tuijn of Oceanrower.eu is rowing for the 9th time across an ocean and for the 5th time with a group from mainland Europe to mainland America in the legendary Rannoch 45 “ROSE” that holds after 5 crossings 10 world records and won the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2018 edition. This time,...