Edinburgh’s MacLean brothers set new record for Pacific row

Three brothers from Edinburgh demanded a new record that was uninterrupted and not supported throughout the Pacific Ocean after 140 days at sea.

Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean endured severe tropical storms that forced them to do long periods of time on 9,000 miles (14.484km) from Peru to Australia.

During a storm, Lachlan swept into the sea With a large wave before retreating to the boat.

The brothers, who reunited with their families and friends in Cairns east of Australia, were looking forward to pizza and a good night sleep.

The Scots broke the 162 -day previous record for the fastest, unhappy, uninterrupted pacific order determined by the Russian Solo Rower. Fyodor Konyukhov In 2014.

Macleans completed their lines in Rose Emily, who are called memory of their unborn sisters.

For the clean water projects in Madagascar, the brothers who have gathered more than £ more than £ more than £ more than £ more than £ so far hoped to complete their journey faster.

However, bad weather prevented their efforts on Thursday and Friday, including high winds overnight.

“In addition to seeing our family and girlfriends, the main thing in all our minds is a newly built bed with fresh linen and a shower,” Lachlan said on Thursday.

He said that the time went relatively smoothly before the conditions became more difficult in half of the ocean.

Lachlan said: “So far, we had a very consistent wind and air.

“There was an anti -cyclone that we couldn’t avoid.”

Lachlan attached the sea during the 36 -hour storm in July.

27 -year -old, 40Mph (64km/s) wind and 6M (20FT) waves during a safety line with the boat is lucky to be connected to the boat, he said.

33 -year -old Ewan was dragged behind the craft before he could help him return to the ship.

Later, a cyclon forced his brothers to leave Brisbane to leave his plan to land and had to make a deviation around the new Caledonia archipelago to avoid the storm.

They could not go down to an island to complete the unbearable order, to replenish or to accept help from the passing boats.

The brothers had to bring all their food – 500kg frozen and dried food and 75 kg oats.

He had enough provisions for 150 days, but Lachlan said that they started to rationalize their materials in the last few weeks if there was more delay in reaching Australia.

Lachlan said: “There was still a military ration reserve, but we didn’t want to squeeze them.

“They were there for an emergency situation, and at the same time it doesn’t taste very good.”

He said it was a fishing line that they brought with them to capture their own food if they escaped from all their ingredients.

Moral was a key concern for rowers, one of the biggest challenges of sleep deprivation.

Brothers who broke a shovel in Atlantic In 2020He tried to get at least five or six hours of sleep around the blocks up to three hours around long shovels.

Sharing a chocolate bar or making each other a coffee helped to raise their souls.

Lachlan said: “Our superpower is to be a brother.

“You can be completely open with each other, and we have a lot of shared history, and this is perhaps lower than you can fall.”

He said that their primary motivation was donation collection and that Lachlan thanked the donors.

He said: “We’ve been far away from how it went.”

While waiting for a fresh food and a comfortable bed, Lachlan said he would miss their close encounters with nights and whales, dolphins and sea birds under the stars full of stars.

32 -year -old Jamie described the adventure as the “most incredible, relentless and usually surreal” of her life.

He said: “While I can miss routine, loneliness, sunsets and sunrise and much more, I am very happy to go back to the land with my friends and my family.

“It will take some time for everything to sink.”

“This won’t surprise anyone – but all I want is a pizza.

“Things became harder towards the end and we thought we could seriously run out of food.

“Even though we were exhausted, we had to increase and do a gear before the ingredients ended, but now we don’t eat suitable foods.

Ewan added: “The days took a long time, and it’s still weird to think about the time we spent here.

“This has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I couldn’t even think without my brothers.”