Mads Vangsø and Lasse Wulff Hansen is sitting right now in a rowboat somewhere on the Atlantic staggering 106.500.000 km2 of sea in the awe-inspiring competition Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge.
You would think that the chance of meeting another rowboat on the giant ocean would be a near non-existent, but the incredible has happened.
The two Danish ro-boys have met a competing boat.
– five minutes ago, we saw a rowboat 6-700 meters from us. What is the chance? Where is the game, says Mads Vangsø, as Extra the Blade catches him on a satelittelefon.
Through video, photos and live gennemstillinger to and from the boat you have every day the opportunity to follow the experiences and challenges, Mads Vangsø and Lasse Wulff Hansen meetings, when they are completely alone and without aids trying to cross the Atlantic ocean in a rowboat.
See also HERE, where the danes find themselves right now.
We follow them up to, during, and when – if all goes as it should – going in the goal on the journey.
the Race was shot at time 12. december on La Gomera and ending approximately 45 days later and more than 5000 kilometres away on Antigua in the Caribbean.
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The other rowboat, as the two Danish aspiring vikings met, is the u.s. ‘Row for the ALS, consisting of five men.
It may therefore be said to have been in something of a hurry, the two danes have shot since they have reached as far as a team, that counts more than twice as many paddlers. But the weather gods have also been the former radio host Mads Vangsø and lieutenant Lasse Wulff Hansen particularly favorable.
– It is damn good, we’ve got the wind at your back and the waves with, says Mads Vangsø with profits in the voice.
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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the Mood swings, however, where Mads Vangsø said earlier, that if it were possible, he was probably busted. But in the time of writing, the spirit is high in the small rowboat.
– We have the fine. We have it hard. We have it cozy. We have fun. It is not an option to give up.
Community – 5. jan. 2019 – at. 16:43 Exhausted, the dane, far out at sea: – I can’t be bothered kraftedeme no more!
Community – 10. jan. 2019 – at. 21:45 Dane in the large race: – It would be completely beyond my comprehension
