‘We keep plodding along’: UK pair two-thirds of the way through 8,000-mile charity row | UK news

Physical and mental challenges were enormous, mishaps countless. The couple endured hot days and cold nights and dealt with weakening bubbles and salt wounds.

They faced a series of equipment malfunctions (using a pair of panties to correct an important kit) and a pair of curious Marins that floated under their boats were very tense when they were afraid that they could pierce their trunks.

Miriam Payne and Jess Rowe, two -thirds of the road 8,000 miles of the Pacific From Peru to Australia, tired – but to ask for experience.

Guardian’a a dawn shift in a dawn shift through the satellite phone – they take two hours throughout the night – Rowe said: “I’m very tired, I will not lie. It’s hard to wake up for the shift. Both of us go out for 10 or 15 minutes. Then they go to sleep for 10 or 15 minutes.

Rowe, 28, from Hampshire, And Payne, 26, from East YorkshireThe veterans of the Atlantic rows and appropriately, Blue Marlin Bar in La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands, is a stop for the ocean adventurers whom they have removed from the eggs.

If they succeed, the first women’s team and the Pacific will be the first couple of uninterrupted and supported.

They’ve been out for more than 100 days and they thought they’ve stayed about 60. Rowe said: “We have reached the point where we have a distance similar to an Atlantic -Row. We both pulled the Atlantic, so we are like this: ‘No problem, the Atlantic remained.’ ‘

They fell in love with the Pacific. Rowe said: “Everyone thinks that we are in big storms every day and thinks we are facing 30 ft waves. It is not always like this. We had many days when it was flat calm. Pacific – peaceful.

“There is something meditative about the shovel. You don’t really think, you enter a rhythm.

Payne and Rowe spent months to find the 30FT -long boat speeds and to organize a journey from renewing to hundreds of dinner that packages vacuum.

It is vital to obtain enough nutrition. They need to buy 5,000 calories a day. “We really miss fresh fruits and vegetables, Row Rowe said. “We play things like mango and carrots. We are quite tired of frozen and dried and thirsty foods.

There are solar panels, but it was a struggle to achieve enough power; They had to use a pair of Calvin Klein panties to replace a lost filter in a sweet water manufacturer. Not surprisingly, fresh water and reliable power are two things they expect.

Despite the problems, they still continue well. “You can recognize each other and spend as much time as possible before, but you never know what can happen here, Row Rowe said. “But we are both very comfortable personalities. We both listened to each other’s views on things and then plan a holiday together.”

The couple jumps into the water every four days to clean the body and keep the boat as fluent as possible. They are looking forward to these decreases, because they can stretch the most and follow them with fresh water and clean clothes – a real treatment. There is no toilet on board – this is a “Aquarius and Chuck It”.

In addition to the Marlin, they saw a sperm whale and plenty of sharks. They enjoyed a hitchhiker who joined them – probably a masquerade Bubi seafood from the Galápagos Islands – and they are not bored with the vigilant phosphorescence view.

Couple with money Philanthropy -based trustYou have no idea about the world events since they left. Payne said: “It is quite good. Always just bad news, especially the last few years. You wonder what happened from some angles, but it is just a digital detox and it is good to get out of the cycle.”

He can’t wait to take a walk in dry soils. “The muscles you use to walk were a little wasted. It will be nice to move in a different way, but we are still strong.”

He asked how they continued, Payne said he really had no other options. “If we do not continue to pull the shovel, we wander around and know where God is. You should continue to row because this is the way to survive. So you continue. We continue to Ploding.”