Shits In sea? You are not needy? Have you been afraid at any time? Would you do it again?
It is passed in with a question for Mads Vangsø and Lasse Wulff Hansen, who right now are struggling through the waves on the Atlantic ocean, as a part of the competition Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. They have been on the water for over six weeks and is approaching the target of Antigua in the Caribbean.
Extra the Magazine’s readers have followed throughout the hard journey, and many readers have along the way sent questions to the duo. We have now had the opportunity to convey to the two danes on the sea. You can see all the answers in the video at the top of the article.
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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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in addition to questions is also sent plenty of words of praise towards the small rowboat on the Atlantic ocean.
“Amazing performance In the walk in,” writes Jens, while one, who calls himself the Skipper, writing: ‘Good wind the last piece. You are too cool.’
And it is warming on the Atlantic, to be cheered from Denmark.
– It is overwhelming, says Lasse Wulff Hansen, who is surprised at how many there are in their journey.
a total Of 28 rowing boats participating in the competition ’the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Chellenge’, 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, who puts it up as ‘The Wolfpack Gym powered by Garmin’s fighting against four other ‘couples’ in their category.
You can be 1-5 participants on a team.
You can race through, see the post on the link here and follow the danes in the pictures here.
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You can see where the two danes are right now, at this link. You can also follow the d’men on Instagram here.
