Four British friends, all amateur rowers, just broke the record for rowing across the Atlantic when they arrived in English Harbour, Antigua, just 29 days and 15 hours after they left the Canary Islands. They beat the previous record by six days, and fought 40-foot swells, hallucinations and food cravings along the way. Plus, chronic fatigue.
Calling themselves The Oarsmen, the four raised the equivalent of $348,000 for two medical charities in Britain. They all lost weight and said they often rowed naked because their clothing would tend to rub and chafe. They rowed two hours on, and then two hours off, in their 26-foot fiberglass boat. At one point, one of them spoke for 20 minutes non-stop about his favorite type of ice cream. For more:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42674974
