Git Diagramming "The Weave" (daverupert.com)

So many practical questions about how this worked. Sleeping, food/water (cooking the fish, seasonings?, did they have stretches where they failed to catch anything), boredom - did they have a radio/podcast library, how much rowing per day, how are the bowels after five months of hardtack and fish, how does your skin handle constant saltwater exposure without showering, etc

Also - I want to see a before photo. They all look pretty slim, but I imagine anyone would after five months of rowing and eating nothing but vitamins and fish.

jonah · 5h ago

At the bottom of the article there are links to two related articles from before they started out and when they were halfway through. They answer many of your questions.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-22/scottish-maclean-brot...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/scottish-maclean-brot...

squigz · 2h ago

Pretty interesting stuff. I'm a bit surprised with the food choices, although to be fair they didn't elaborate too much. But just freeze dried and store-bought foods? And they were talking about eating it cold! Someone needs to show them MREs and flameless ration heaters!

LandR · 4h ago

I saw an interview with them on the news here. Im sure I heard one of them say one of somehow managed to gain weight during it!

tonyedgecombe · 2h ago

I'll file that fact away for the next time I hear somebody here say "all you need is exercise to lose weight".

jjensen · 4h ago

Two English women are close to accomplishing the same feat.

https://www.seasthedayoceanrowing.com/

gcanyon · 6h ago

I’ve rowed a marathon ( several, actually) on a concept 2. I’d even say I’m pretty suited to long distance rowing, since I usually don’t drink or eat while doing a marathon.

That said, the idea of going much longer than that — like an eight hour shift, or even two four hour shifts in a day, day after day… that’s insane.

And that doesn’t even begin to account for the difference between the erg and ocean rowing. Double insane.

bob1029 · 1h ago

After about 45 minutes of rowing on the C2 I don't register that I am exerting myself anymore. I could probably go all day if the boredom wasn't so intense. The danger of the open sea would help a lot with this.

hydrogen7800 · 6h ago

"You can take all the boys and the girls in the world I wouldn't trade them this morning for my sweet Ocean Cloud I've seen too much of life So the sea is my wife and a sweet Ocean Cloud is a mistress I'm allowed"

Ocean Cloud by Marillion, written about a solo rower who crossed the Atlantic.

jemmyw · 50m ago

I get angry with my siblings too.

highwaylights · 4h ago

For a second I read "row" as in argument rather than boat/oars and my brain went straight to this:

https://spookyscotland.net/benandonner/

Absolutely incredible achievement.

alex1138 · 4h ago

"No u"

For 139 days

With probably a lot of drinking involved

gentooflux · 2h ago

They're Scottish, your script is missing the f word

wmichelin · 6h ago

Incredible achievement. I'd love to read a bit about their communications. I noticed their rowboat had a bunch of solar panels on it.

FiatLuxDave · 3h ago

OMG, they made it! My sister knows these guys! They became friends when she was working at an NGO in Madagascar. They also make whiskey.

rietta · 5h ago

I am confused. How can they be the first when there is an existing record? So fastest time but not first? An absolutely awe inspiring accomplishment!

dsp_person · 4h ago

First time they used a mammoth

Retric · 5h ago

I think it’s the first unsupported team. Where someone else did an (unsupported?) solo trip.

ares623 · 6h ago

What a disconnected piece of writing. It's like every paragraph is it's own separate topic, with topics alternating between different paragraphs.

Super cool achievement, regardless.

fernly · 6h ago

> three Scottish brothers have set a new world record by completing the first and fastest unsupported row across the Pacific Ocean... > The previous record of 159 days had been set in 2014 by Russian rower Fedor Konyukhov.

Um, if they are the first to do it, how can there be a previous record? I guess the Konukhov trip was "supported"? Or not "full"?

alexey-salmin · 2h ago

Konyukhov did solo unsupported (so not a "team").

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/383779-fi...

https://konyukhov.ru/en/project/expedition/fyodor-konyuhov-n...

tasn · 6h ago

I also found it confusing, the way I ended up interpreting it: they are the first unsupported team, and was also unsupported but did it solo.