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The bilge pumps amidships

Seasickness and bilge watch

Windswept, cold and tired, the first crew members look out from under their woollen blankets. The watch stare…

Why don’t we do everything as in Viking times?

Why don’t we navigate as they did in Viking times? Why don’t we wear the clothes the Vikings did? Why don’t we eat…

The first blister

Our hands are sore and the first blisters begin to appear. We have not yet rowed very much – an hour and half today…

Extract from logbook, 6 July 2008

From Wicklow heading for Portsmouth

8.30 Breakfast by the ship9.00 Skipper’s briefing:

The wind has turned…