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When I first heard
they were gonna do the row

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you hear it and you're like,
probably not possible.

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They explain what it is and
you just think what the hell is this?

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The world's toughest rowing race,

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3,000 miles long,
across the Atlantic.

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From the Canary Islands
to the Caribbean.

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30 teams taking part, one of the
world's toughest endurance events.

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I think my first reaction
was a little bit horrified.

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You're off your chops.
It's not gonna happen.

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We were like, they're not
gonna be able to do it.

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When you're 1,000 miles from land,
helicopters can't come and get you.

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Sleep deprivation, unpredictable
storms, anything could happen.

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I honestly thought it was a joke
for six months. (LAUGHS)

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And I was a little bit alarmed
at how small the boat was.

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Was expecting it to be a bit bigger.

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They'll be fine.

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I mean, it's a rowing race that
fewer than 400 people have attempted.

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Compare that to over 4,000
who climbed Everest.

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You're dealing with sea sickness,
with a harsh environment,

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and you can't just stop
at the end of the day.

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That's what makes it tougher
than any other sport.

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Beyond physical extremes,
that mental challenge

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of going over and over again
and keeping your hopes up,

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have them go down and reprioritise

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and thinking
'why did I not just stay at home?'

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Have you guys actually got
any rowing experience?

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We have absolutely
no rowing experience.

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I've got a little bit
of rowing experience.

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Carry on.

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Wittering on about this...

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You've done one 24 hour row.

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MUSIC: "Blackbird" by Martyn Bennett

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# What a voice... #

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LACHLAN: I think it's kind
of a desire to take on a challenge

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that would really push your limits.

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A bit of that exists in everyone.

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Who's taller right now?

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It's in some ways very primal.

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That was definitely
the initial attraction to it.

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Pushing your boundaries and seeing
what you're capable of, really.

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You guys?

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Yeah, I don't know. I think...

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(LAUGHS)

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I'm gonna probably rephrase that
cos that was a bit shite.

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An experience
that will stay with you forever,

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and it will completely
change your perspective on...

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..on everything.

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When you first hear
about one of these challenges,

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you can't really
get your head around it.

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I mean, your initial thoughts
are like, is that even possible?

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Use your legs, Jamie. Use your legs.

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If you tell someone,

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"Oh, I'm gonna row
across the Atlantic"

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people are like, "You're an absolute
nutcase. What's your experience?"

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- None.
- Yeah.

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- Oh, right. Very good.
- Good luck.

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We had no idea that like
people like us could potentially go

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and do something like that.

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You'd always think it would be
an elite athlete

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or someone who is completely bonkers.

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So then the idea of doing something
like this together, wow,

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wouldn't that be incredible.

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So excited,
excited to get on the water.

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Finally.

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EWAN: Gonna be pretty small,

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spending 40 to 50 days,
not much space to move around.

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Pretty rocky for doing the Atlantic.

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The Atlantic's known for being
quite still, though, isn't it?

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Hold it, hold it there.

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Yeah, it's there.

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Pretty tight.

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Yeah, the first time we went out,

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we were pretty crap at rowing.

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Kind of felt like a bunch of plums,
to be honest.

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We didn't have a clue, didn't have
a clue what we were doing.

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ALL: # And I'll be
in Scotland afore you #

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How do we even put the oars
into the... into the oar locks

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and like, how do
we get the rudder on?

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Like, how do you even steer
this thing? Like, who are these guys?

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There's no way they're gonna
be able to row across an ocean.

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# Loch Lomond #

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Lachlan's wise beyond his years,
for sure.

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He's wise, he's wise.

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Wiser than the two of us.

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He does smell quite a lot, though.

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Lachlan, the youngest.

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He's brawn, but also brains.

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He's studying philosophy,
and he thinks, d'you know.

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Part of my motivation

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was probably to prove myself,
like in the family.

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Initially, like Jamie and I

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were keen to do it,

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and then Ewan found out about it.

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There's no way I was gonna
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- Usually break your...
- Slosh it.

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I would describe Ewan
as small and feisty.

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Small and feisty?

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Punches above his weight.

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Ewan, the oldest. He's an engineer.

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He's incredibly inventive.

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So if there are any problems,
I think it'll fall to Ewan.

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I'm very kind of small

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compared to what your average
kind of rower would look like.

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He would say, "Yeah, I'm gonna
row across the Atlantic."

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And people would
kind of laugh at him, like...

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..are you sure?

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(LAUGHS)

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Definitely, part of it is wanting

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to kind of prove to yourself
and to other people

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you can do this kind of thing.

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No, I'm good. Thank you.

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Oh. Shouldn't have pressed that?

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Jamie is a perfectionist above
anyone that I've probably ever met.

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Can be kind of frustrating
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where you're like,
can you just hurry up?

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I take my time when doing things,
I like to do a good job.

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Jamie, he's studying architecture.

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Even from an... a small boy,
he would terrify my wife and I,

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you know, climbing trees

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or jumping off cliffs
into the sea and things like that.

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When you're old

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and decrepit and you're sitting
in your wee cottage...

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Yeah.

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..and you're looking back
and you think...

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What you laughing at?

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I'm trying to get all deep here,
Ewan.

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A wee cottage, what?

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Well, I didn't know what to...

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# UPBEAT FOLK

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I think generally, they're very
chaotic. They approach things...

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That's so true!

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They've always had such brilliant
and hilarious grand ideas.

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It was unexpected,

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but when you actually think about it,
it was very Maclean.

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They'd happily be out,

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you know, skinning animals
at the age of six.

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They're wired differently to how
other human beings are wired.

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They're such adventurous guys,

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and they have nine lives,

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and they'll land on their feet.

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How would you describe the Macleans?

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Mad.

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To prepare for rowing an ocean
from no experience at all

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is quite a big undertaking.

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We had Angus Collins,
an ocean rowing coach,

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train us for a couple of days.

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ANGUS: ..forward position
and then try and straighten your...

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LACHLAN: Are you holding it
always in your neutral position?

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Yeah, I've hardly got
any pickup with my hip.

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Today, we went a bit more technical
and did some para anchor drills

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to kind of see
how technical they were.

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And they picked it up straight away.

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You can tell they're brothers
that have been

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in the wild, in the wilderness
for quite a long time,

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and they've got transferable skills

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that they've been able to take
into ocean rowing, but...

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..they've got a long way
to get to the start line yet,

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let alone the end.

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For me, I was working full time,

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and then would often be up
till like two in the morning,

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like sending out emails
or like trying to think about things,

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and then you've got to fit in like
a two and a half hour gym session.

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It's very full on.

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Mother Maclean is on the oars.

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I reckon she's better than Jamie.

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I think Jamie needs
to take the bench.

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Escape.

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Yeah.

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Lessening. Posture.

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It might make you live
a little bit longer.

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Here is the main deck,
where all the action happens,

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all the rowing, all the eating.

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Two car batteries, essentially.

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If we lost power, we wouldn't be able
to run the autohelm,

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so we wouldn't be able
to keep our course,

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we'd have to manually steer,
wouldn't be able to charge anything.

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Navigation, and then, of course,
water making, that would be

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an absolute nightmare.

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And then these are

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homemade foot straps.

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I think they're wakeboarding
foot straps.

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Chopped-up wetsuit for a heel cup.

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The rowing seats move
on scooter wheels.

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Our mum helps make them.

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This is the reality
of the rear cabin.

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Pretty cosy.

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The master suite.

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You could lie sideways.

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You could lie on your back.

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You could hug yourself.

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Alongside our training, we'll be
fundraising for our two charities,

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Feedback Madagascar,
and Children 1st.

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This includes the money that we have
raised for our Ocean Rowing boat,

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which we'll sell
after we've done the race.

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Who is the best rower?

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Definitely me.

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(ALL LAUGH)

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Have you seen Titanic?

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You feel like each day you're working

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towards something that'll also
make some sort of impact,

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something that
you totally believe in.

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Family and close friends,

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that's like the most important thing
there is really

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and they'll always be there and
you can rely on them for anything.

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It's been absolutely phenomenal,
the amount of support we've had.

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Mum and Dad in particular
have been really supportive.

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We've involved them quite a lot.

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It's incredibly humbling,
them just believing in you,

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supporting you, to allow this

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sort of what was a dream
become a reality.

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We're very lucky.

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A sponsor sent us out to Chamonix

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to train with an endurance athlete
called Chloë Lanthier.

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She trains some of kind of
the top athletes in the world.

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We sort of arrived, and she taught us
how to walk again, really.

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Narrow. Bit wider, wider.

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Narrow, a bit wider.

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We're working the toe flexors

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to increase rigidity
in the plantar fascia,

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techniques that they're not going
to have foot issues on the boat.

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Preparing for an ocean row,

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it's not one dimensional, you know,
it's a real holistic approach

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all the way through
from your physical preparation,

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your skills preparation,

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your technical preparation,
your mental preparation.

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Unlike many other events,
the biggest challenges out there

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is the mental side of things,

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because you cannot
just, you know, quit.

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It's 5.30 in the morning.

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We're sitting at the top of...

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What's the hill?

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CHLOE: Planpraz.

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- Montpraz.
- Planpraz.

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LACHLAN AND EWAN: Planpraz.

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Chloë, she's a really inspiring lady,

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cos her philosophy is,
any anxiety or fear you have,

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take every measure you can do
to prepare

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for that fear or anxiety.

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Our biggest fear, I guess
one of us going overboard.

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Coming out on a night shift

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and finding
there's nobody on the oars.

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When we were training in the boat
at the end of the session,

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jump overboard and swim
after the boat for 10 minutes,

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and then swap and the other one rows
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Man overboard!

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But It's doing things like that,
I think, like you've in many ways,

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prepared for it and practised it.

251
00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,960
EWAN: It was actually Chloë
who advised us not to go against

252
00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,360
our lightweight body types

253
00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,160
and to stick with what we had.

254
00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:17,520
We were all very, very lean.

255
00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:20,880
So like, I was like...
I was like 68 grams when I started.

256
00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:22,200
68?

257
00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:23,920
(ALL LAUGH)

258
00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,280
He had to have all his own kit.

259
00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,520
So like teeny little oars,

260
00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:31,320
teeny, teeny little seat.

261
00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,040
Compared to some of the other teams,

262
00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,720
we were definitely way lighter.

263
00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,960
(ALL LAUGH)

264
00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,720
- Right, get the giggles out.
- Get a grip.

265
00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,560
Compared to some of the other teams,
I mean, we were way lighter.

266
00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,280
I mean, me, particularly,

267
00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:48,320
I was like 68 kilograms.

268
00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,080
So they're nearly,
like, double my weight.

269
00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,560
He'll have much more power
than I'd ever be able to put out.

270
00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,360
But it does mean as well,
they have to carry

271
00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,480
way more food to be able
to sustain themselves.

272
00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,160
So it was a very different tactic
to what the other teams do.

273
00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,000
Knowing that, you know,
in a month's time or whatever,

274
00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,400
I was literally gonna be pushing off
into the Atlantic, I'm thinking,

275
00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,840
if I'm not physically up to that,

276
00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,000
I could be not only putting myself
like in danger,

277
00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,120
I could be putting
Jamie and Lachlan in danger.

278
00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:17,440
That was a huge motivation.

279
00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:23,240
My biggest concern for Ewan
is pushing himself beyond his means.

280
00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:26,760
No.

281
00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,720
Pushing like, your physical, like...

282
00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,680
- Yeah.
- ..limits.

283
00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,480
Yeah, overdoing it.

284
00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,640
OK, yeah.

285
00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:43,520
This is a Broar speed record attempt,

286
00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:45,680
going for nine knots.

287
00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,120
We're ready, boys.

288
00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,920
Carrying everything with you,
you're fully self sufficient.

289
00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,720
You need to know everything
about that boat

290
00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:54,280
and your teammates before you go.

291
00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,520
You need to be super well prepared.

292
00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:58,640
We're somewhat apprehensive.

293
00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:01,000
These are our three children
in one...

294
00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:02,720
Eggs in one basket, you know,

295
00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:03,960
but they're determined.

296
00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:09,720
The way they tackled this
has been unbelievable.

297
00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,480
They've learnt so much.

298
00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,120
They've trained so hard.

299
00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:17,040
By crossing the Atlantic,

300
00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,200
we'll be the first three brothers
to row any ocean.

301
00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,160
7.7.

302
00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,280
8.2.

303
00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:29,080
There are five different classes.
Solo, pairs, trio, fours and fives.

304
00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:30,920
We're racing against trios.

305
00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:32,480
Three person crews.

306
00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,400
One in particular, All Oar Nothing,

307
00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,520
they're very competitive,
three strong guys.

308
00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,520
Experienced doing Iron Mans
and other endurance events.

309
00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:41,920
8.4.

310
00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,680
They've all, all three of them,
got a really good understanding

311
00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,560
of what they need to do on the boat,
but now, it's just time in the water.

312
00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,480
It's repetition,
getting into a routine,

313
00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,000
knowing who's gonna do what job.

314
00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,120
We've been putting as much
as we can into it.

315
00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,200
It's been full time every day.

316
00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,040
We haven't had social lives
for the last eight months.

317
00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:00,520
Oh, yeah!

318
00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:01,560
8.9!

319
00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,120
Get up at three, four in the morning
and drive to the boat,

320
00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,680
go out on the boat,
do a few hours' rowing,

321
00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,880
and then go back
and do your kind of normal day

322
00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,640
whilst sleep deprived.

323
00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,360
9.5!

324
00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,240
Come on, we'll get 10!

325
00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,800
It's going to be unforgettable,
for good or for bad.

326
00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,640
At some moments, I think beautiful.

327
00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,640
At some moments,
pretty dark and scary.

328
00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,880
I've had some experiences that
I wouldn't wish on the worst enemy.

329
00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:30,400
It's going to challenge us in ways
we haven't been challenged before.

330
00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,800
It's gonna be pretty eye opening.

331
00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,040
In some ways
it's a really simple thing,

332
00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,120
but it's immensely difficult
at the same time.

333
00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,120
It's gonna be tough.

334
00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:44,960
That it?

335
00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:47,400
Woo!

336
00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,360
Everyone that has supported us
and got us thus far,

337
00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,640
letting those people down
and letting the charities down,

338
00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,800
that's a huge kind of worry.

339
00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,680
I think you can worry about it,
though, but you can also use it

340
00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,120
as a means of pushing you on.

341
00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,720
Outsider opinions
and stuff like that,

342
00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,040
like, on one hand,
you can worry about that

343
00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,040
and let it negatively impact you,

344
00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,880
or you can use it in a positive
manner, like, y'know what, no...

345
00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,680
Y'know, there's so many people
who've believed in us,

346
00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:24,000
so many people who've supported us
over the past year that, like,

347
00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:25,440
we're not gonna let them down.

348
00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,840
We'll go out there
and do as best as we can.

349
00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,800
How long is it until you guys go now?

350
00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:39,920
Uh, so we...

351
00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:41,360
Oh, heck, it's three days.

352
00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,120
We leave in three days.

353
00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:44,520
OK.

354
00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:45,800
See you on the other side.

355
00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,280
Deal. If we're lucky!

356
00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:48,960
Need to get our toothbrushes and...

357
00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,000
Yeah, we do.

358
00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,080
We need toilet roll.
We don't have any toilet roll.

359
00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:53,720
- Toilet roll and...
- I thought...

360
00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:54,760
- ..tools.
- Do we not?

361
00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,080
There is no way that these boys
are going to organise themselves

362
00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,080
to be ready
to cross the Atlantic safely.

363
00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,560
Bit of a rogue baggage drop,

364
00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,880
got seven hold baggages.

365
00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,400
90% really excited.

366
00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,720
10% it's pretty terrifying.

367
00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,080
It's... it's still
not really sunk in.

368
00:17:25,120 --> 00:17:29,000
It's quite easy at the moment to
just like, pop off and get a coffee,

369
00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:30,840
or, like, use the toilet,

370
00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,480
or all these things
you don't even think about.

371
00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:46,480
Mum's been out here for
the last nearly a week now.

372
00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,320
She's delayed her flight
so she could help us out last minute,

373
00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:51,800
doing all sorts, helping out
with things on the boat,

374
00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:53,120
helping out with lunches,

375
00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,320
running about,
getting stuff all over La Gomera.

376
00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:59,720
Our competitors
were intimidatingly professional.

377
00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,080
Some of the other teams are
like huge, like, ex military teams.

378
00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:06,240
These guys have been like,
pumping iron for months, clearly.

379
00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,560
And we were like, oh God, like,
these guys do look huge.

380
00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,320
So maybe we've absolutely bottled it.

381
00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:15,640
(CHEERING & APPLAUSE)

382
00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,920
It's paramount to be prepared
when it comes to the start line.

383
00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,920
I think that puts you in a much
better place, you know, mentally.

384
00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,840
Was there anything
you could've prepared a bit better?

385
00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,280
I don't think so, I think we were
one of the most organised...

386
00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,480
- (ALL LAUGH)
- ..teams on the start line.

387
00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,160
They like to approach things
without much planning.

388
00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,440
They really just wing
everything they do.

389
00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,200
I've already got two blisters.

390
00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:48,400
We didn't actually get our autohelm
working until the start line.

391
00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,280
We were very disorganised,
an absolute shambles.

392
00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,560
We were pretty stressed out at
the beginning of the race, for sure.

393
00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,440
Countless things that we had
to try and get ready for.

394
00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,320
There were so many bits of equipment
that we just simply couldn't afford

395
00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:04,040
until that very last minute.

396
00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,280
There was definitely a feeling
towards us

397
00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,200
that we were like this shambolic
ceilidh band

398
00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,800
setting off to do something
we probably shouldn't be doing,

399
00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,880
not helped by the fact that we were
like, drilling holes in the deck

400
00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,000
like minutes before the starter gun.

401
00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,800
We were in the boat,
the race had started,

402
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,720
the five person teams had started,
then the fours, then the trios.

403
00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,120
It was like, halfway through,

404
00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,080
we were checking through
and then it was like,

405
00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:29,320
we don't have any toilet roll.

406
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,400
EWAN: We made the mistake
of sending Lachlan up

407
00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:34,640
to go and buy loo roll,

408
00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:35,680
and he disappears,

409
00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,600
comes back
with four rolls of loo roll.

410
00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,680
So this could be 60 days at sea.

411
00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,800
I was under considerable stress
at this point.

412
00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,400
Come on, hurry up.

413
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,120
We did it in sort of our style,

414
00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,600
which is late, slightly shambolic,

415
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,080
but managed to somehow
pull it together at the end.

416
00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,000
You've had so much of a build up.

417
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,600
You've gone through so much
to get to that start line.

418
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,200
In many ways, leaving the dock
was a huge relief.

419
00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,720
So you're emotional,
it's quite an overwhelming feeling.

420
00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,240
By that point, finally, you know,
as ready as we were ever going to be.

421
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,000
(STARTING HORN)

422
00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,360
Prior to the race,

423
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,280
we didn't have the time
to be able to worry about it,

424
00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,480
and we just kind
of threw ourselves in head first

425
00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,480
and just embraced
whatever came our way.

426
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,000
You've got so much adrenaline
pumping through your body.

427
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:40,840
I mean, we just rowed and rowed

428
00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,200
for, like, the first 24 hours,
if not longer.

429
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,920
It's this kind of baptism

430
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:49,960
of will and waves,

431
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,160
and you just... you've never
seen anything like it.

432
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:09,560
Woo!

433
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,840
It's currently ten past five
on the first night.

434
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,280
It's been a bit of a rough one,
bit of a quick start.

435
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,240
And yeah, some pretty strong waves.

436
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:20,520
I, at one point,

437
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,840
managed to get totally
taken off my seat

438
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,760
and thrown halfway up the boat,
which was pretty exciting.

439
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,320
Couple bruises to show for it.

440
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,120
Going in the right direction,

441
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,280
but it was really pretty rough,
pretty choppy,

442
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,920
and I remember a point
where I was sat down on the deck

443
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,520
looking across, having just been
vomiting over the side

444
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:43,920
cos of the sea sickness,

445
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,760
catching Jamie's eye, and he was
in the exact same position.

446
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,200
And I know we were both
thinking the same thing of...

447
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:53,040
'We have only just started this,
what have we signed up for? Oh dear.'

448
00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:59,680
Beginning of the race,
the first 24 hours,

449
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,800
quite scary, cos we just
weren't used to it at all.

450
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,760
How could so many people say it was
like a life changing experience?

451
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,640
Cos in this moment, I'm scared

452
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,840
and I don't wanna be here.

453
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,920
And if it's gonna be like this for
the next potentially 40 to 60 days...

454
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:17,600
Nah, no thank you.

455
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,600
Got off to a good start yesterday.

456
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,200
Went quite far south,

457
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,320
got in some decent wind.

458
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,240
Enjoying surfing a little bit.

459
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,160
First experience of that.

460
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:35,880
Yeehaw!

461
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,040
I spewed, Ewan spewed.

462
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,240
La kept it steady.

463
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,480
Somehow, miraculously,

464
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:46,760
we are in the lead.

465
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,800
No one saw that coming, not even us.

466
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,520
- Ooh!
- Oh, Jesus!

467
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:57,640
Let it go.

468
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,640
Fly, fishy, fly!

469
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,680
We were experiencing
some battery issues,

470
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:13,160
so we didn't have
enough power to make water,

471
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,600
so we're probably all
a little bit dehydrated.

472
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,960
Had to crack into some
of the emergency rations.

473
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,680
And then also couldn't use
the autohelm

474
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,240
so we were hand steering all night
last night,

475
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,200
which meant that, yeah,
our course wasn't great.

476
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,320
This spot is notorious
for things going wrong

477
00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:38,520
and if things... as and when things
do go wrong, which will happen,

478
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,320
you can't just call up
the support yacht.

479
00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:43,000
You need to take everything with you
when you're out there

480
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:44,920
and if things break,
you need to, you know,

481
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,080
you need to adapt and overcome,
you know.

482
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,760
When it came to, like, electronics
and any of that going wrong,

483
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,160
having Ewan there
to kind of just know what,

484
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,800
understand what the problem was,

485
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,240
and be able to kind of address it
was pretty crucial.

486
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,160
I don't think I would have trusted
Jamie or Lachlan

487
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,360
with any of the technical elements.

488
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,040
Are you pressing anything, Jamie?

489
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,040
- No, do you want me to?
- No, don't.

490
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,800
You're told so many times
that, you know,

491
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,000
the first week is gonna be
just hellish,

492
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,600
but I think you don't really
know that until you're in it.

493
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,800
As expected,

494
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,160
we have been overtaken.

495
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,960
We've cut south
in search of the wind,

496
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,920
hoping to find the trade winds
in the next couple of days.

497
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,920
MICHELLE OBAMA:
"Memorise the campus map

498
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,040
"and conquer whatever syllabi
they wanted to throw my way."

499
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,800
Monday the 16th.

500
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:46,960
Pretty rough today.

501
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,880
# Let the river flow... #

502
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,320
As we start
to get used to it, though,

503
00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:09,400
we really start to enjoy
ourselves a lot more.

504
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,680
Weather is with us.

505
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,080
Some nice big rollers.

506
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,360
They're lovely, aren't they, boys?

507
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,080
We like big seas.

508
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,520
We've hit 500 miles,

509
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,280
plus we're gonna have
some shortbread.

510
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:33,320
# Da-da-da #

511
00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:34,360
# Da-da-da #

512
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,200
# Da-da-da! #

513
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,440
(THEY VOCALISE)

514
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:46,280
MUSIC: "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
by The Proclaimers

515
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,040
# And I would walk 500 miles

516
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,440
# And I would walk 500 more

517
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,440
# Just to be the man who walked... #

518
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,680
Scotland!

519
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,520
# ..to fall down at your door #

520
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,760
# SLOW GUITAR

521
00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:17,520
When they were very small,

522
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,480
I think it was probably
around Easter time,

523
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,400
and the weather was really bad.

524
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,160
And I was up north
with them on their own.

525
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,320
And they were desperate
to get out in the boat,

526
00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:29,640
and they wanted to go out
mackerel fishing and lobster potting.

527
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,000
And in the end,
I gave in and let them go.

528
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,920
But they didn't have any mackerel
cos the weather had been so bad.

529
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,720
So they took some tins of tuna
with them.

530
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,120
And then I forgot, you know,
I was sitting in the house reading,

531
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,080
and I thought,
oh, they've been gone hours.

532
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,240
Jamie, I think by definition,
we are sinking.

533
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,760
It is taking on water pretty fast.

534
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,000
What had happened,
the outboard had broken down,

535
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,920
and they'd had to row
all the way back.

536
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,440
And it had taken them about two hours
to row back.

537
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,640
Ewan said, "Mum, that was so...
that was so exciting.

538
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,120
"We nearly starved to death,
and we had to eat the tuna

539
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,440
"so we didn't have anything
to put in the lobster pots."

540
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,960
But for the rest of the week,
with the stormy weather,

541
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,280
they didn't ask to go out again
on their own.

542
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,760
I think they were
a little bit frightened.

543
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,200
Go row, they said.

544
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,480
It'd be fun, they said.

545
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,200
The three of them
are really mentally tough.

546
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,760
I'm pretty sure that the world
can throw stuff at them,

547
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,120
and they'll just figure it out,
they'll work it out between them.

548
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,720
Unusually talented and gifted family
but not in a way that

549
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,920
would make you ever resent them,
really, because they're so authentic,

550
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,360
and there's something
just infectiously positive

551
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,840
about their company for that.

552
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,680
Wahey!

553
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,560
I think the key thing is that

554
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,800
they all get on
so well together.

555
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,840
Shh...

556
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,960
Jamie, shut up.

557
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,320
What?

558
00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,680
They each respect
each other's talents.

559
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,120
Do not trust Ewan, not one bit.

560
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,520
Are you washing your hair
in the shite bucket, Jamie? (LAUGHS)

561
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,280
It's an easy mistake to make.

562
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,960
But there's two buckets.
We have two buckets.

563
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,760
I've not seen the second bu...

564
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,280
Is that...

565
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,320
He's literally hammering something.

566
00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:35,160
He builds his own microphones.

567
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:36,440
How can he not understand?

568
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,560
This kind of... this kind of shit
I had to deal with at sea.

569
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,840
If me and my siblings
locked ourselves

570
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,320
in a cabin, sleeping side by side

571
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,000
in the middle of the Atlantic,

572
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,040
danger all around us,
shitting next to each other,

573
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:50,440
we would kill ourselves.

574
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,640
Ewan! What are you doing?

575
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,040
You are useless.

576
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,880
Lachlan, he always does this thing
where he says,

577
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,920
"Can you recognise that you're
being an arsehole right now?"

578
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,120
(LAUGHS)

579
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,920
And so much of the time, it's true.

580
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,840
That's one point for Ewan!
One point for Gryffindor!

581
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,080
I always look forward to hanging out
with Jamie and Lachlan.

582
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,160
It's like super easy
and it's always good fun.

583
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,960
From a very young age,
we were outdoorsy.

584
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,040
Mum and Dad
gave us a huge amount of freedom.

585
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,560
I think that all definitely fed
into quite a unique upbringing.

586
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,800
Where we lived was an old farmhouse.

587
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,240
The back garden was a few fields

588
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,720
then it would open up
into a forest, and then the hills.

589
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,520
Didn't have any game consoles.

590
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,680
We had a, like, a TV
that was from like the 60s,

591
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,600
and it was, like,
the size of a shoe box.

592
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,680
We kind of had to find other means
of entertaining ourselves.

593
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:49,960
Building dens,

594
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,520
climbing trees,
spears, making spears.

595
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,320
There was obviously a few...
a few hiccups along the way.

596
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:56,720
Tried to make a petrol bomb.

597
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:57,960
Didn't go to plan.

598
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,520
Set myself on fire.

599
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,880
About seven years ago,

600
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,360
Mum and Dad unfortunately split up.

601
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,600
That was obviously difficult

602
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,240
particularly for Lachlan
cos he was...

603
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,520
LACHLAN: Still at school, yeah.
I was still at home.

604
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:16,960
You guys weren't at home anymore.

605
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,920
And then home for all of us
was also sold.

606
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,640
And so it was kind of like a...
it was like a double whammy.

607
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,760
Granny died as well that year.
It was a really tough year.

608
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,280
You had a shocking Christmas,
got dumped by your girlfriend.

609
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:29,680
Yeah, yeah.

610
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:30,760
I had a real tough time.

611
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,680
I shouldn't laugh at that, sorry.

612
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,240
Fuckin'... Cheers, man.
Cheers for supporting us.

613
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,200
You either laugh about it
or you cry about it.

614
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,240
When that started
to kind of break down,

615
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,360
that was... that was like, I felt
really lost for quite... quite a bit.

616
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,200
I think that's when I realised
how important

617
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,120
Jamie and Lachlan were to me,
to be honest.

618
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,080
And I think that really did
bring us together

619
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,160
cos we definitely wanted to make sure

620
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,320
each other were OK
going through that.

621
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,120
It had a big influence
on our relationship.

622
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,440
Been a long night

623
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:15,160
and relatively frustrating day
so far.

624
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,600
Wind's not quite what it was
the last few days.

625
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,520
I think we're expecting to be
going faster than we will be.

626
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,600
Still getting used to
the sleep deprivation

627
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,720
and the routine of things.

628
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,400
Pretty relentless.

629
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,560
It's a very primal state
where you are just acting

630
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,800
on those very, very basic needs

631
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,240
in Maslow's triangle, you know,

632
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,280
just keeping warm
when you need to keep warm.

633
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:48,640
Eating when you need to eat.

634
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,200
You're not expending any...
any kind of energy on any other level

635
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,080
of more kind of complex life.

636
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,800
We get up in the morning at 6am.

637
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,280
Lachlan's on the oars.

638
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,840
He wakes me up,
the sun begins to rise.

639
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,720
Have porridge and then crack into
our two-on, one-off routine.

640
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,960
When we weren't rowing, we pretty
much always had something to do.

641
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,840
Either you were making water
or you were preparing meals.

642
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,920
Maybe the batteries need checked,
you need to clean the solar panels.

643
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,200
There was actually
very little time spent just...

644
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:22,920
you'd have any time to yourself.

645
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,000
The hours preceding
the night shifts.

646
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,200
We make our one hot meal of the day.

647
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,200
I've added significantly
too much water.

648
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,960
We have 5,000 calories each per day,
which seems to be doing the trick.

649
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,560
Midnight was when night shift began.

650
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,520
Got an average
of four hours' sleep per day.

651
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,480
Nearly made it through another night.

652
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,880
Just gonna go and wake up Jimbo.

653
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,400
Jimmy, time to get up.

654
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,160
How excited are you?

655
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,800
You look pretty excited to me.

656
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,400
As the sun rose,
you'd be full of excitement,

657
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,000
cos that was at least
one more night shift had passed.

658
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,240
LACHLAN: After, I would say,
about two weeks,

659
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:10,240
we finally got into the flow
of our daily routine,

660
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,360
how much rest we were getting
when we were resting.

661
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,440
So we just kind of got
into the rhythm of things

662
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,680
and started to enjoy it way more.

663
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,880
You get into a routine and your
body just adapts. It's amazing.

664
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,320
Getting into the patterns
of the night shifts, I think

665
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,600
at no point do you enjoy them,

666
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,040
but you just kind of
get more used to them.

667
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,560
Your body adapts to that.

668
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,600
I lost my last hair bobble.

669
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,480
It was a tough blow.

670
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,680
They have an ability to just really
become immersed in getting flow

671
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,680
and focus on the task at hand.

672
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:08,920
Most people can't do that.

673
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,040
Most people would
be too inside their own head.

674
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:12,640
The body just gets used to it.

675
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,120
You do get pains all over the place,
but after 10 days,

676
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,280
they do kind of disappear.

677
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,360
You actually begin to forget
that you're rowing.

678
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:20,880
Almost like meditation,

679
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:25,240
become focused on other small things,
weather patterns, wind.

680
00:34:26,240 --> 00:34:29,240
One safety precaution
we took throughout

681
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,320
and we were very diligent with,
was always clipping on.

682
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,000
The routine becomes, you wake up,
you clip on, you row.

683
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,440
(PLAYS A HAUNTING MELODY)

684
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,080
I think we all have kind of
an adventurous spirit.

685
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,240
The idea of a mundane lifestyle,

686
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,520
of just kind of going through
the routine,

687
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,160
that terrifies us.

688
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,200
The distraction that you get
with everyday life,

689
00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:30,640
the anxiety of just stupid things
that shouldn't play on your mind.

690
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,800
You just don't have any of those.

691
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,360
In that state, you just get to
kind of review your life.

692
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,840
It's a very kind of
spiritual experience in that way.

693
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,240
You're so used to
just the three of you,

694
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:47,040
and your space on your world
becomes this tiny little raft.

695
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,640
In the middle of the Atlantic
you're closer to someone in space

696
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,480
than you are another person on land.

697
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,720
You're so far
out of your comfort zone.

698
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,000
You've got those guys above you
in the International Space Station.

699
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,880
The water beneath you
is four miles deep.

700
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,120
It is just a bit of a...
it's a bit of a mind bender.

701
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:26,400
# Changes that have come over me

702
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,520
# These last few days... #

703
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,200
You begin to reflect upon,
like, your current situation,

704
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,080
your environment, what you're doing,

705
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,560
and something that was very,
like, humbling for me,

706
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,200
and a motivation for me is to then
sort of try and zoom out from that

707
00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:43,360
and be like you've...
we've chosen to be here.

708
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,640
We're incredibly lucky
and privileged to be here.

709
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,600
There are people around the world

710
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,480
who don't have water
in their day to day lives.

711
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,400
There are kids in Scotland
who are abused

712
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,240
and suffer trauma from a young age.

713
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,040
So, like that for me
would then sort of...

714
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,840
in my mind, I'd be OK, well,
let's... let's get on with it then

715
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:01,520
and try and make a difference

716
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,880
to those people
who aren't as fortunate as us.

717
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,200
Come on.

718
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:09,200
# I think about you all the time #

719
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:14,080
(JOINS IN)
# Caledonia I'm calling you

720
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:19,360
# Now I'm going home

721
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:24,320
# And if I should become a stranger

722
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:29,680
# You know that it would make me
more than sad

723
00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:36,120
# Caledonia's been everything
I've ever had #

724
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,320
Woo-woo!

725
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:47,160
So this is our final phone cable.

726
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,640
The other three have all died.

727
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:54,560
We're having to ration the usage
of this last cable,

728
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,400
otherwise we'll be
completely cut off.

729
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,560
Won't be able to check
the race tracker, check the weather,

730
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,240
so we've made the decision to cut
music for the rest of the crossing.

731
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,080
Probably get pretty good at singing
by the end of it.

732
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,000
Maybe.

733
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:17,520
No music.

734
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,760
I've had to take to pretending
to play the harmonica.

735
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,480
I don't play the harmonica.

736
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,280
(PLAYS HARMONICA)

737
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,040
Merry Christmas!

738
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,080
Merry Christmas!

739
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,080
Lovely letter from Mum and Dad
just wishing us...

740
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,960
..wishing us a Merry Christmas.

741
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,840
"Lala, life may be difficult,
but it's the only thing worth living.

742
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,520
"Thinking of you at Christmas.
Much love, Dad."

743
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,440
We're a very, very close family,

744
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:01,720
and we get on terribly well.

745
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:03,080
That's always been the case.

746
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:05,520
I was concerned,

747
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,120
but I knew that
once they'd made their mind up,

748
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,440
they were gonna go and there was
nothing we could do about it.

749
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,000
This is a line from the poem

750
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,200
"The waves of the sea
have spoken to me,

751
00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:19,120
"the wild birds have taught me,

752
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,360
"the music of many waters
has been my master."

753
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,280
So I am the waves of the sea.

754
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,120
Mum's, oh, just so supportive.

755
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,560
I don't know how she put up with the
three of us growing up, to be honest.

756
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:33,960
We were absolute nightmares.

757
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,640
I think we're still giving
her a bloody headache, to be honest.

758
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,040
She's always struggled a bit
with depression, unfortunately,

759
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,880
and I think maybe
that's living with Dad,

760
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:46,400
cos he's such a big character,

761
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,320
that was maybe
a bit of a pressure for Mum.

762
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,560
Like people would always
go round, see Charlie.

763
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,080
We've been trying to get Mum
as involved as possible

764
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,280
with the campaign,
because we knew that

765
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:58,920
if there were too many
unknowns for her,

766
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:00,440
it would be quite scary for her.

767
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,000
And I think it's actually worked.

768
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,480
The more we've got her involved,

769
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,440
the more she's understood the various
safety nets that there are.

770
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,200
It's definitely given her
something to work on.

771
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:15,000
We've been around to see her
get into a much better place,

772
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,240
which is...
that's been pretty amazing.

773
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,360
Something that was unexpected.

774
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,040
News just in.

775
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,360
Change course.

776
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,000
Steer for Antigua, baby!

777
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,920
Woo!

778
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,320
We've been kind of going
fairly far south

779
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:34,720
to get down to the trade winds,

780
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:39,320
and we finally get to change
our course for Antigua.

781
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:40,800
Done.

782
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,000
Name.

783
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,600
Antigua.

784
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,280
Symbol, danger area.

785
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:49,720
Water temperature.

786
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,400
Oh, it's hot.

787
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,280
Navigate to...

788
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,400
Bam! There it is.

789
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,040
It looks about halfway on this.

790
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:12,160
Just tucking into our... our dinner
as the night shifts begin.

791
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,880
The night shift, the majority of it
was very unenjoyable.

792
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,480
The piece of the day
that you least look forward to.

793
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,800
If it was rough seas you knew you
were in for a bit of a bash about,

794
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,320
getting thrown off your seat,

795
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,160
not knowing where
anything's coming from,

796
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:27,800
just trying to keep the boat going.

797
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,040
You're constantly fighting
with the urge to sleep, you know.

798
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,560
It's natural for our bodies to want
to shut down it as it gets dark.

799
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,840
I've definitely got a strange thing
with sleep walking.

800
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,960
We were changing around with having
very frequent but very short rests.

801
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,480
And like, I think it was
the changing around so much,

802
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,240
it really made us all
quite exhausted.

803
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,040
And you kind of...
you are falling asleep on the oars.

804
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,720
I hadn't kind of got used to it,
and I remember I just woke up

805
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,320
and I was on the oars
and I wasn't actually rowing.

806
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,440
I was just kind of like slumped over
in the gunwales.

807
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,680
And I knew that, like,
I hadn't been awake the whole time.

808
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:04,720
The thing that kind of confirmed that
was that I wasn't clipped on.

809
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,840
It was a little bit
of a wake up call.

810
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,560
The boats, they do turn over.

811
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,240
And if that does happen,
and you're not clipped on,

812
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,200
then you are probably gonna die.

813
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,480
This new environment that we were in
just seemed so alien to anything.

814
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,760
Six inches away from the water
either side,

815
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,920
and the water seems like death.

816
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,480
At night, you're on your own.

817
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,040
You get hit by a squall
or a rogue wave,

818
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,360
the boat spins a bit and it pushes it
too far off course.

819
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,920
The autohelm
that keeps us on our course

820
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:37,840
jams off in one direction,

821
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:41,920
then the boat would naturally turn
side on to the waves and the wind.

822
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,680
Manically trying to

823
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:45,960
whisk, so one oar forward,
one oar backwards,

824
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,320
to spin the boat back round.

825
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,120
The person in the rear cabin
would have to wake up,

826
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:51,880
turn the boat manually to port.

827
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,240
You're genuinely scared
for your life.

828
00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:05,200
Not much wind.

829
00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:06,800
Long old day on the oars,

830
00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:10,360
grinding it out.

831
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,520
A sweaty slog.

832
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,400
There was a spell
when we had very little wind,

833
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,240
and then a bit of wind against us.

834
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:19,720
And that was slog.

835
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,440
It's like rowing through treacle.

836
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,400
There were points where it was really
difficult to get through that shift.

837
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,040
And it was more like
trying to stay awake, I think,

838
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:34,400
that was the hardest points.

839
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,800
A cup of tea made by granny Roberts,
best cup of tea around.

840
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,400
A Tunnock's tea cake.

841
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,600
Oh, no, Tunnock's wafer.
Caramel wafer.

842
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,840
This is what I've had to put up with.

843
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:48,840
Fuck my life.

844
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,480
A lot of it is a long slog, and so
lot of time just spent together,

845
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,760
and that enabled us to sort
of have conversations

846
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,960
with one another
I don't think we'd had before,

847
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,520
which was a really nice byproduct
of the whole thing.

848
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,520
We spoke about so many things.

849
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,720
We spoke about kind of growing up.

850
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:13,080
We spoke about what we wanted to do,
aspirations for the future.

851
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,600
We were much more open about chatting
about Mum and Dad at sea,

852
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,920
and I think that's given us
a new, um... perspective.

853
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:28,720
We would endlessly talk about
our hopes and dreams for the future.

854
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,160
Nice, yeah.

855
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,240
Yeah, yeah.

856
00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:49,120
I like to that think we're pretty
good at talking about our feelings.

857
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,760
The chances are
they're probably gonna understand

858
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,280
how you're rationalising something,

859
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,080
or how you're processing something

860
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,560
much better than most other people,

861
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,520
cos they just know you very well,

862
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,840
but they also probably are processing
it in a similar way themselves.

863
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:07,960
The whole macho male type thing,

864
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,240
it's always difficult to try
and dig a little deeper

865
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,480
and be honest with people.

866
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,400
It's so important to talk
about these things,

867
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,600
otherwise you're bottling things up,
it becomes kind of a bit toxic.

868
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,640
Something that I'd always worried
about at school, the pressures

869
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:32,280
of sort of need to do well at school
so you can get to university,

870
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:33,560
you need to go to university

871
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,480
so you can get a good job
and start a career,

872
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,160
and then work away at that career
for the rest of your life.

873
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,160
That was something I'd always
in the back of my mind worried about

874
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,000
cos I never really knew
what I wanted to do.

875
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,640
Hogmanay plans, Ewan?

876
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,320
We've brought
a special blend with us,

877
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,120
so I'm gonna have a dram,

878
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,400
and then I'll probably nudge Jamie
to get his pipes out.

879
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,160
And then I think we'll probably
do some rowing.

880
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,280
I'm getting pretty
into the rowing recently,

881
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:09,640
so probably do a bit of that.

882
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,920
(THEY CHEER)

883
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,960
(WAVES CRASH)

884
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,680
The weather took a turn.

885
00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:43,600
The waves seemed to get
bigger and bigger

886
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:45,640
and the wind got stronger
and stronger.

887
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,520
I was genuinely scared.

888
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,040
EWAN: A challenge like this, it's
not just a physical challenge at all.

889
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,120
There's just so many hurdles
that you face.

890
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,200
The row, it takes you way further

891
00:46:57,240 --> 00:47:00,560
than you ever thought
that you could go before.

892
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,640
Just because you have no choice.

893
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:09,800
We knew it was extremely
stressful for our loved ones,

894
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,600
and so we tried to speak to them
as regularly as possible out at sea.

895
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,680
Thankfully, we had sat phones
so we could call home.

896
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:18,760
(WIND HOWLS)

897
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,360
This is not great!

898
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,880
At least it's not raining
at the moment. I hate this shite.

899
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:28,360
And you're constantly on edge.

900
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,200
It's like you're constantly
in this survival mode

901
00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:33,360
where it's like fight or flight.

902
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,040
I think it would have been
so easy to just go,

903
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,080
"This isn't... this isn't possible.
We can't continue like this."

904
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,040
But yeah, we kind of kept at it.

905
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:51,120
We've got half a day of...
being on the beam with rain.

906
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,560
Morale's not very high.

907
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,000
Lala...

908
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,440
..is not feeling too good.

909
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:02,560
Oh, dear.

910
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:03,880
We had a two day period

911
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,520
when both Jamie and I went down
with some kind of...

912
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,200
I think it was a bacterial problem.

913
00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:12,320
Feeling rough as a badger's arse.

914
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,920
That was probably when
we got first worried about them.

915
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,400
And you could tell,
I think they were very weak.

916
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,680
Jamie was on the phone,
I was speaking to him,

917
00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:21,760
and he did just sound
pretty delirious.

918
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,560
Just spewing last night, rough night,

919
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,960
and then no energy this morning.

920
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,240
How you doing?

921
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,720
I'm doing alright.

922
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,080
Tough day but... getting there.

923
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,400
Tough day.

924
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:40,600
Ewan's... grinding away as always.

925
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,960
Ewan, I remember him saying
when we were at sea,

926
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,440
people doubting the fact
that he could do it as well as us

927
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,480
sort of spurred him on
to prove those people wrong.

928
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,080
I'm definitely proud of Ewan
for stepping up in those two days.

929
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:56,200
Took a lot.

930
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,280
I've been working
for the last five years down south

931
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,480
and was at university
for five years before that

932
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,520
so I'd been away from home
for quite a long time, to be honest.

933
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,960
It wasn't like we weren't friendly.

934
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,080
We would just see each other
maybe at Christmas

935
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:13,480
and maybe once in summer

936
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:14,760
for a week here and there.

937
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,640
We sort of led our separate lives.

938
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,240
When you've obviously
grown up together,

939
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:20,360
and when you go away,

940
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,480
you kind of...
I dunno, you do realise

941
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,600
kind of the sibling banter
that you kind of... you kind of miss.

942
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,600
JAMIE: You jealous
of Lala's short shorts?

943
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:28,960
Working in a corporate setting,

944
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,640
I think you don't necessarily
get the same purpose.

945
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:33,120
If it's something you've created

946
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,760
and you're building up with,
you know, people that you love,

947
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,760
you'll always be
more motivated by that.

948
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,600
The nicest thing
about the whole challenge

949
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,320
is that we've been almost
forced to sort of work together

950
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:45,840
and spend this time together,

951
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,840
which has resulted in us just
becoming like the best of mates.

952
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,880
It's all looking up because Jamie...

953
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,600
We have a poo!

954
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,000
..he's finally passed.

955
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:03,400
I never thought I would be metres
away from my brother having a shit

956
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,400
and be so happy about it.

957
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:16,400
(EXCLAIMS)

958
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,360
When being on a very,
very small boat, on a very big ocean,

959
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,080
there's a lot of dangers.

960
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,640
Sleep deprivation, sores, you know,

961
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:33,360
boat can roll around

962
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,880
and so, you know,
it is the world's toughest row.

963
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:50,880
We all had these apps.

964
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:54,120
I remember most nights
waking in the middle of the night,

965
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,840
and putting it on,
seeing where they were,

966
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:58,680
you know,
seeing if it was still afloat.

967
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:05,560
The row is very...

968
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,600
in many ways,
it's a very selfish thing to do

969
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,520
because you've had
this incredible support

970
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,680
of your friends and family
to get to the start line,

971
00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:13,120
then you go off and do this thing

972
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,320
that puts them all
in a very difficult situation,

973
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,520
puts them through
an incredible amount of stress.

974
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,200
EWAN: Started to realise
in calls with Mum

975
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:23,400
that she was...
she just didn't seem right.

976
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:24,520
I don't know what it was.

977
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,640
We were all pretty worried
that we'd maybe

978
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,080
put so much stress on Mum
that, you know,

979
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,320
it'd done some real harm,
to be honest.

980
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:34,480
You've got these
long nights of rowing

981
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,160
and you kind of think
about these things.

982
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:37,200
Um...

983
00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:40,360
I'm not gonna lie.
It was pretty tough.

984
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,560
I think that was the main thing
that would bring morale down.

985
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,000
I think we were just gutted that we'd
brought this on Mum, potentially.

986
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:51,160
Fuck me.

987
00:51:54,720 --> 00:51:56,720
(WIND HOWLS)

988
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:04,160
Didn't really know what happened,
but it all just kind of fell apart.

989
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:05,640
Big squall came in,

990
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,920
came onto beam side,

991
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:09,800
got absolutely soaked.

992
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:11,480
Couldn't really row,

993
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:16,040
and then realised one of our
batteries had somehow dropped

994
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:19,360
and the autopilot was breaking.

995
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,760
We had the weather turned,
the weather was against us

996
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,240
with torrential rain, high winds,
big waves.

997
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:27,520
Boys!

998
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,520
Battery's not really working.

999
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,440
Autopilot has broken.

1000
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,560
Ewan's trying to fix both
in the cabin.

1001
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:44,360
It just very quickly
becomes quite overwhelming.

1002
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,680
As soon as all these things
happen at the same time,

1003
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:49,720
you begin to question if you're gonna
be able to make it to the end.

1004
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,520
You're out in the middle
of the Atlantic

1005
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,640
and you've not had sleep
for days and days and days,

1006
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,360
your ability to problem solve does
become slightly compromised.

1007
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,240
OK, I've got the top bolt.

1008
00:52:58,280 --> 00:52:59,600
Which one?

1009
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:00,800
Top bolt.

1010
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:02,440
Fuck sake.

1011
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:06,600
LACHLAN: So what
have you guys achieved?

1012
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,360
If you don't have enough power,

1013
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,080
then you can't produce enough water,

1014
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:13,640
and that's kind of your lifeline,

1015
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,880
that's the one thing you need, cos
you need it to hydrate your meals,

1016
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,400
and obviously you need it to drink.

1017
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,640
We were rapidly
going through our ballast,

1018
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:23,160
our kind of spare water supply,

1019
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,240
which we carried on board
in our wet rations.

1020
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,400
The enjoyable experience
that we'd been hoping for

1021
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:31,640
was slowly slipping away.

1022
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:35,480
Feeling a bit down today.

1023
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,840
I think the, uh,
the scale of the challenge

1024
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:41,120
is starting to set in,

1025
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:45,240
and it seems pretty...
pretty overwhelming.

1026
00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:49,840
We'd spent so much time focusing on
our physical preparation and safety,

1027
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:51,120
but we'd never considered

1028
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:54,760
that the biggest risk
was our equipment failing on us.

1029
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,760
We got hit by this incredibly hard
tropical rain.

1030
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:03,960
It just flattens the ocean, but it's
really strong wind at the same time.

1031
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:07,960
And then it just stopped.

1032
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,960
The squall passed over us
and we were in the eye of the storm,

1033
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,360
and then Lachlan shouted to us.

1034
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,520
All of us saw a butterfly

1035
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:19,200
just float on past,

1036
00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:21,480
and we kind of looked at it
and looked at each other.

1037
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,280
LACHLAN: All the different things
that were going on,

1038
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,280
the weather, the technical failures.

1039
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,640
Last thing you expect to see
in the middle of an ocean.

1040
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,960
And then it just kind of drifted off.

1041
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,760
And then, like two minutes later,

1042
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:37,200
squall's back on,

1043
00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:38,880
it's incredibly heavy rain.

1044
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,360
The most surreal experience.

1045
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,160
How on earth could
a butterfly get there?

1046
00:54:45,240 --> 00:54:46,280
When our granny died,

1047
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,640
we were all very close
with our granny,

1048
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,320
but I remember the few days after,

1049
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,080
a butterfly lingered around our house

1050
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,440
and it was there for about a week.

1051
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,360
We were kind of superstitiously
thinking it was the spirit of Granny

1052
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:00,400
coming to say hello.

1053
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,640
Even though it felt like everything
had started to go wrong,

1054
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,200
I don't think it's good to dwell
on these things too long.

1055
00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:08,320
Keep moving forward.

1056
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,160
That was always our dad's philosophy.

1057
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:11,400
Just keep moving forward.

1058
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:16,200
It demands you to push yourself

1059
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:20,200
beyond what you thought
you could ever achieve.

1060
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:24,200
Being brothers

1061
00:55:24,240 --> 00:55:26,960
was definitely our biggest strength.

1062
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,080
Chopped our chopping board up

1063
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,000
and made a plate

1064
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:35,160
which the autopilot mounts on to

1065
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,640
so hopefully that should reinforce

1066
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:38,960
the Fibreglass below.

1067
00:55:40,240 --> 00:55:42,480
Thankfully, Ewan was able
to fix the autohelm,

1068
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:45,440
which was absolutely crucial.

1069
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,800
A lot of teams don't really do
any work on the boat themselves.

1070
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:50,840
They get the boat builders
to do that,

1071
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,920
and we were there before the race,

1072
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:54,920
drilling into the top
of the cabin and stuff,

1073
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,000
which shocked a lot of teams.

1074
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:58,400
But the thing all of this

1075
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:02,240
that we probably knew the boat
a lot better than most other teams.

1076
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,280
So when we were at sea
and things did go wrong,

1077
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,680
we knew how to deal with it,
especially Ewan.

1078
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:10,760
One battery down,

1079
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,880
which means we can't make enough
water on our water maker

1080
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:18,560
so poor Lala, on his break.

1081
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:20,600
Just pumping away!

1082
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:21,640
Got the hand pump out.

1083
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,800
You're in the middle of the Atlantic,
you've got no choice.

1084
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,360
You've got literally no choice.

1085
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,560
So there's no point
getting stressed about it.

1086
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,440
You've just gotta do it.
And that's it.

1087
00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:40,240
We have not seen a boat now

1088
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,720
for like, 20 days.

1089
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:44,000
Like, more.

1090
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:47,720
When there's big weather like this,
you can do a bit of surfing.

1091
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:49,480
Woo!

1092
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:51,880
Everything they approach,
it doesn't faze them.

1093
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:55,200
They're just looking forward to
the challenge, the positives of it.

1094
00:56:55,240 --> 00:56:58,200
If there's gonna be three of my pals
that were going to be setting off,

1095
00:56:58,240 --> 00:57:01,600
if I had to choose them,
I would have picked them.

1096
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,400
We were like,
what the fuck are they...

1097
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:08,920
Like, what are they doing?

1098
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:10,880
They were doing it
while playing bagpipes!

1099
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:12,400
They're making everyone look bad.

1100
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,200
(PLAYS "SCOTLAND THE BRAVE"
ON BAGPIPES)

1101
00:57:15,240 --> 00:57:19,760
Trenching your gushing entrails
bright like onie ditch

1102
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,440
and, O, what a glorious sicht.

1103
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:27,520
Warm-reekin',

1104
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:28,600
rich.

1105
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,760
But if ye wish her grateful prayer,

1106
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:33,840
gie her... a mango.

1107
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:42,440
Come at me!

1108
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:46,000
This thing that we'd put so much
energy into getting to that point,

1109
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,680
if we weren't enjoying it,
like, what was the point?

1110
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:53,400
Lachlan has crafted with his own
bare hands this flapjack

1111
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:54,960
using our porridge

1112
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,240
and a couple left over bits and bobs.

1113
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:01,400
Oh, my God, that's so good.

1114
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:03,040
I'm so bored of... (LAUGHS)

1115
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:04,880
..the other snacks we've got.

1116
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:06,840
That is amazing!

1117
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:20,440
Silly Sausage 2.

1118
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:23,320
Doing well on the water.

1119
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,160
Doing us proud.

1120
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:34,320
We were the fastest boat
over the last four hours.

1121
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,080
Average of two knots.

1122
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:41,520
We are also hoping to go
for a hundred mile day.

1123
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,960
The most miles we've clocked
in a day thus far has been 84

1124
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,600
so we're gonna really
give it beans...

1125
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:51,840
I was checking the app in the morning
as it updated and realising,

1126
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:53,640
hold on, they're in the lead.

1127
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:57,160
Anything's possible here
and they could do this.

1128
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,080
We decided by that point
that we wanted to win the trio.

1129
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:01,400
We just put, I guess,

1130
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:05,000
put a little bit of pressure
on ourselves to dig deep.

1131
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:07,040
# DRAMATIC

1132
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:17,400
There was never a disparity
of one of us going,

1133
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,760
"we need to keep pushing,
we need to keep pushing,"

1134
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,080
and one of us being
totally on a different page.

1135
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:24,200
I think that really comes
from being brothers.

1136
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,120
We were all thinking the same thing
at the same time.

1137
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,680
This is backbreaking stuff.

1138
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:31,160
They were like pretty much flying.

1139
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,520
It looked like they did a quarter
in about two days,

1140
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:35,200
and they just couldn't be stopped.

1141
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,400
We'd got news
from our weather router

1142
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:42,720
we were about to get some really
fast, like a really fast spell.

1143
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,520
They referred to it as a sleigh ride.

1144
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,280
In these little ocean rowing boats,
the weather you get,

1145
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,280
you can't really
chase weather patterns.

1146
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,160
You can't go fast enough. You're hit
with whatever you're hit with.

1147
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,560
But our weather router came in,
which was so invaluable,

1148
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:57,760
you could say, in two days' time,
you're gonna

1149
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:00,160
have to row really hard
for two days straight.

1150
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,640
That, mentally, let us plan
for what we had to expect.

1151
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:07,280
We were loving it.
That was the funnest part.

1152
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:08,720
Almost surfing, almost.

1153
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:10,080
Clocking up the miles.

1154
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:16,280
We got the furthest rowed
in 24 hours for a trio.

1155
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,320
They were just absolutely flying up.
Thought, 'this is epic'.

1156
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,960
This is so windy.

1157
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,800
We are absolutely flying along.

1158
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:38,360
250 miles to go.

1159
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:42,880
This is the final, final, big treat
that we've saved ourselves.

1160
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:46,280
I've gone for
the waffle pancake technique,

1161
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:47,800
stack 'em all together.

1162
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:48,840
Very special moment.

1163
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,760
Next stop, Antigua!

1164
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:54,360
Woo!

1165
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,680
Lovely, eh?

1166
01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:58,760
Like home.

1167
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,520
Just like home.

1168
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:05,720
We knew that our mum
was arriving on the 16th,

1169
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,760
so there was a window
in which we had to arrive

1170
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:09,360
or we would miss her.

1171
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,920
It was important for her
to see us coming in.

1172
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:17,520
We're all deeply, deeply
superstitious, especially at sea.

1173
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,760
We didn't allow ourselves to admit

1174
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,280
that we were kind of potentially
gonna do quite well,

1175
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:23,640
because that would jinx it.

1176
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,360
You're excited to be going fast,

1177
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:29,360
and you feel good
when you're going fast,

1178
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,600
but then also you're conscious
that it is the most dangerous time.

1179
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:36,880
There are freak stories of people

1180
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,720
getting just a couple of hundred
miles from Antigua

1181
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:43,600
and freak wave hits them, they
capsize, they can't right the boat.

1182
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:45,720
They have to get rescued.
Everything's over.

1183
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:48,600
Even though you're due to get in
in like, three or four days' time

1184
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:50,240
you're like, anything could happen.

1185
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,320
At one point, we did nearly capsize.

1186
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:56,360
A big wave hit us side on
in the middle of the night.

1187
01:01:58,120 --> 01:01:59,280
We had a few issues

1188
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:02,200
in the night, probably the closest
we've come to rolling the boat.

1189
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:06,600
It was a bit of a rude awakening,
but thankfully, it wasn't any worse,

1190
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:07,880
and we just kept on going.

1191
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:14,040
Ewan's doing a poo.

1192
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:16,920
What a beautiful evening
for a giant...

1193
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,360
And here's Antigua, baby!

1194
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:22,360
And then let's
zoom this out a little bit.

1195
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:24,080
Oh, baby!

1196
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,040
We'll probably all be farting
about a hundred times a day.

1197
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:41,360
Thursday, the 16th of January.

1198
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,640
We are racing out for our final day.

1199
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,760
For the sun to pop over
the horizon and then

1200
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:52,360
we should be able to see
Antigua for the first time.

1201
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,520
Last sunrise before arrival.

1202
01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:59,760
JAMIE: You see this sort of...
it just seems like a smudge

1203
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:00,800
on the horizon,

1204
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,880
and you kind of have to
really focus your eyes,

1205
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:04,200
and you're like, is that...?

1206
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:05,640
I can't see anything!

1207
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,920
- Oh shit, yeah.
- It's really thin!

1208
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:11,160
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...

1209
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:14,400
And you check it on a map and
there's definitely something there.

1210
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:15,640
Woo!

1211
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:19,360
Oh, you can, you definitely can!
(WHOOPS)

1212
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:22,920
Seeing land for the first time was
another huge moment.

1213
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:24,920
- Nearly there!
- Woo!

1214
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:26,880
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo!

1215
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:32,560
It's quite a weird,

1216
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:33,720
disconnected feeling,

1217
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,320
because it's just something
that you've been so alien to.

1218
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,440
It's not just the 35 days
you've been at sea.

1219
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,480
For 12 months, it's the only thing
that's on your mind.

1220
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:48,720
It was completely overwhelming
when we when we turned that corner

1221
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:51,520
and saw hundreds of people
with flares going.

1222
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,400
(CHEERING & APPLAUSE)

1223
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,360
LACHLAN: I could see loads
of little figures standing up there,

1224
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,240
and I was thinking,
they can't be here for us.

1225
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:00,600
And so I thought,

1226
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:02,880
I'll give it a wave,
see if they respond.

1227
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:05,000
And they're all waving back,
and I'm like, what!

1228
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:09,280
I mean, that was pretty special.
I don't think I'll forget that.

1229
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:15,320
(CHEERING & APPLAUSE)

1230
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:17,600
Completely overwhelming
when we turned

1231
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:20,760
that corner and saw sort of hundreds
of people with flares going.

1232
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:24,160
It was so disconnected

1233
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:27,680
from anything I've ever
experienced, but at the same time,

1234
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:30,040
like completely you're in ecstasy.

1235
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:31,680
It's just a...

1236
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:33,800
it's a hugely
overwhelming experience.

1237
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:37,360
(CHEERING & APPLAUSE)

1238
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,560
All the huge amount of work
that it takes to manifest that.

1239
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,360
I was stunned.

1240
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:59,120
It's amazing, like,
what they achieved.

1241
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:02,120
And I think the way in which
they achieved it as well,

1242
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:04,000
I think that was recognised,

1243
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,640
you know, not just by myself,
but everyone in the sport.

1244
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:10,760
They are so determined
in everything they do in life.

1245
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:12,280
But I don't think any of us

1246
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:16,520
expected for them
to do so phenomenally well.

1247
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:19,840
JAMIE: The row gave us
a huge amount of purpose.

1248
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:22,200
Gives you new confidence
you didn't know you had,

1249
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:23,520
new self esteem.

1250
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:27,280
A year and a half ago, I would say,

1251
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:30,280
each of us, I think probably
had something to prove.

1252
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,400
And then by the end of the process,

1253
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:34,720
I think that had kind of dissipated,

1254
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,640
and it was more just
like doing something together.

1255
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:41,320
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen...

1256
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:47,480
It has been magical and also hellish.

1257
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:49,320
Uncomparable to anything else really.

1258
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:51,840
It's a pretty phenomenal experience.

1259
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:59,640
# UPBEAT FOLK

1260
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:04,000
Mum came up
and we gave her a big hug

1261
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:06,440
and very, very special moment.

1262
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:13,160
Time at sea gave us time to reflect
upon Mum and Dad

1263
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:16,760
and really give us a new appreciation
for our upbringing,

1264
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,920
how fortunate we've been,
how great parents they both were.

1265
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:21,320
I'm very proud of them,

1266
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:25,000
and I think it's also
changed their lives forever.

1267
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:30,480
It was an amazing achievement,
and I'm so proud of them, really.

1268
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:33,080
The bond between them
is unbreakable now.

1269
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:35,960
They just wanted to do an adventure
as three brothers.

1270
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:37,560
That was why people
wanted to help them

1271
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:39,160
and why it was so successful,
I think.

1272
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:41,840
Certainly weren't
the most prepared in any way.

1273
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,440
But when people spent
a bit of time with them,

1274
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:48,000
they realised, actually,
these are three people I'd back.

1275
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:50,080
I used to think I'd be able
to row the Atlantic

1276
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:52,080
until they did it,
and then I was like,

1277
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,120
I definitely can't row the Atlantic.

1278
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:55,920
It's uninspired me.

1279
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:57,320
- Yeah.
- (BOTH LAUGH)

1280
01:06:57,360 --> 01:07:01,320
The Maclean brothers have never been
early for anything in history,

1281
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,960
yet they became the fastest three
brothers to row across the Atlantic.

1282
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:10,800
Seeing Mum at the finish line was...

1283
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:12,400
it was a relief for us, I think.

1284
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:15,800
The pressure had been kind of
somewhat decompressed at that point.

1285
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:18,920
And this is a print
that was inspired

1286
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:22,360
by the boys rowing
across the Atlantic.

1287
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:26,000
Thankfully, now
she's a much more positive person.

1288
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:28,760
It's so much nicer to see Mum
kind of happy again.

1289
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:30,840
MUSIC: "Blackbird" by Martyn Bennett

1290
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:38,400
The reaction is very often like,
that's, I can't imagine

1291
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:42,000
anything worse than spending
that amount of time with my siblings.

1292
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:44,520
I think that's a shame, a real shame.

1293
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:48,120
We've got each other's back,
like, more than anyone else.

1294
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:49,680
(MUSIC CONTINUES)

1295
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,640
What do my brothers mean to me?

1296
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,120
They mean a huge amount to me.

1297
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:07,040
# But if I had wings
like that swallow high

1298
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,800
# I would clasp in... #

1299
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:13,120
Moments can be
so much more magical

1300
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,120
when you share them
with other people.

1301
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:19,000
And so sharing them with my brothers
was just, you know,

1302
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:21,400
what could get better than that?

1303
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:28,560
So what's next
for the Maclean Brothers?

1304
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,600
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

1305
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:59,480
# What a voice, what a voice

1306
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:06,440
# What a voice

1307
01:09:06,480 --> 01:09:10,520
# I hear

1308
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:16,840
# It's like the voice

1309
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:22,720
# Of my Willy dear #

1310
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:24,080
Some guys just sort of...

1311
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,400
..half their body weight looked like
they'd been at sea for years.

1312
01:09:27,440 --> 01:09:28,880
Well, Jamie jumped off the boat

1313
01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:30,760
looking like he'd
popped down the shop

1314
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:34,040
and then they were
straight on the having drinks.

1315
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:35,480
And I think they had to...

1316
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:37,240
Jamie had to carry me home.

1317
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,720
(LAUGHS) Which is pathetic!

1318
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:44,320
I definitely missed Jamie
and Ewan probably the most

1319
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:45,800
when I stayed on in Antigua.

1320
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:47,440
I thought I'd be sick of them.

1321
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:53,840
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1322
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:11,280
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