4800 kilometres across the Atlantic. Two people in a small rowboat. Physical and mental pressure. Yes, it sounds like an explosive cocktail, but the former tv and radio host Mads Vangsø and lieutenant Lasse Wulff Hansen keep up the good friendship, despite the hard circumstances.
– Lasse can sit and listen to loud Metallica and calm speeding along at full blast, while I may sit by the side of with tårene rolling down her cheeks, tells Mads Vangsø about life on peace boat.
Community – 9. jan. 2019 – at. 20:11 Danes leads the race: We would beat the world record
a total Of 28 rowing boats participating in the competition, which begins on La Gomera and will end at the finish line well 5000 miles across the Atlantic to Antigua in the Caribbean.
Each team will compete against other teams with equal number of rowers. Mads Vangsø and Lasse Wulff Hansen is fighting against four other ‘couples’ in their category.
You can be 1-5 participants on a team.
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The two danes are in the process of peace over the great sea, in the vanvidsræset ‘Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge’ – where at the time of writing is number one.
– If we can maintain the (peace in both, red.) so it would be completely beyond my ability to comprehend, explain Vangsø.
The two guys are however, of good cheer, and have become reconciled to the harsh circumstances and missed to the family and indolence.
– For the first time on the trip we to accept the state of things, tells Vangsø on hjemveen, and elaborates:
– We accept life as it is out here and not thinking so much at the time.
After the rudder every two hours at a time and sleeps for two hours. Round the clock on the entire trip.
Every paddler need to drink up to ten litres of water a day.
Seawater is purified in a ‘watermaker’ and thus becomes for drinking water.
A beet lose an average of 12 pounds on the trip.
More people have climbed Mount Everest than crossing an ocean in a rowing boat.
At the deepest point is the Atlantic ocean, about 8.5 miles deep.
in the Middle of the Atlantic waves can be up to six metres high.
Two sikkerhedsbåde sailing with on the trip, but must cover the entire course. Therefore, it can in some cases take them a week to reach a boat in trouble.
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