Just north of the GWC Bridge 22 J-24s and J-80s gather for the start in light air.
Going with the flow
Roger Revelle, Some Particulars:
Owner: Office of Naval Research, USN
Operator: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Built: 9 December 1993, launched 20 April 1995
Propulsion: Twin 3,000 hp Diesel electric motors
Length: 277 ft (84.4 m)
Beam: 52 ft. (16 m)
Cruising Speed: 12 knots
Range: 15,000 nautical miles (28,000 km)
Endurance: 52 days
Dallas Murphy reports from the sea
[T]he North Atlantic Current (NAC), a sort of offshoot arm of the Gulf Stream itself. Twenty to 40 million cubic meters of warm, salty water deliver to the west-facing shores of Europe a moderate climate they don’t deserve, given their latitudes. For instance, the latitude of Bantry Bay, Ireland, is 51° North, where palm trees can survive, and farther north, much of the coast of Norway above the Arctic Circle remains ice-free year-round. (On the west side of the Atlantic, that latitude slices across the frigid coast of Labrador.) So here’s a clear-cut example of how the ocean, in collaboration with the west wind, strongly influences climate over a large swath of the Northern Hemisphere. And it’s only one example.
Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan MACLEAN.
For practice they rowed 3,000 miles from the Canaries to Antigua. Piece of cake.
Now they've done 9.000 miles across the Pacific, Peru to Australia. 140+ days.
And they look the part - all three of them.
And being Scotsmen they've branded it the Rare Whisky 101 Row.
All for charity. And, of course, they've reached their goal.
We’ve set an ambitious target of £1 million for clean water projects in Madagascar.. This would result in 40,000+ people having access to clean water for life.
