Two EY consultants are about to row 5000km in a tiny boat with no loo
Their biggest challenge is the test to their friendship, say the crew risking life and sanity to raise funds for mental health in a mad Atlantic dash.
It’s called the toughest annual ocean row in the world, a 5000-kilometre race across the Atlantic from the Spanish Canary Islands to the finish line at Nelson’s Dockyard in Antigua and Barbuda, against 35 other purpose-built vessels (some with just a solo rower aboard).
The only Australian team – comprising EY consultants Sam Horsley and Louis Hugh-Jones along with builder James Samuels and medical school graduate Rob Wells – are hoping to break the Australian record of 34 days, 10 hours and 46 minutes.
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