Another 24 hours at sea and once again good progress for both crews.
Fire Ant is another 70 nautical miles closer to Barbados and The Toby Wallace have moved 91 Nm closer to the finish.
The Toby Wallace Daily Statistics page is now live.
The Girls on Fire Ant have been learning just how fast an ocean rowing boat can go. They spent some time surfing the boat down waves and achieved a very impressive speed of 16 knots on one run. As the crew gain experience it becomes a real pleasure to surf the waves and a very effective way to advance towards Barbados.
Yesterday the wind moved fully to the east and increased in speed to 25 knots for both crews. This will have made life on board a little wet for a while. The wind has now eased and will continue to drop on Monday. It remains to be seen what affect this has on boat speed.
Members of both crews have experienced some sea sickness in these early days of the row. Both Gemma on Fire Ant and Simon on Toby Wallace had to end shore support calls promptly – to feed the fish! Gemma and the Fire Ant crew are now over their sea sickness and the remainder of the Toby Wallace crew should get over it quickly in the lighter conditions.
Both crews are enjoying messages from home. Whilst they can not reply directly to every, they send their regards to all. Please keep up you message posting.
Finally, in other news, Mamil Sports have posted a good article about Toby Wallace team member Iwan. http://www.mamilsports.com/atlanticrowchallenge/