The aim behind them is to advertise the sponsor and for participants to raise money for charities.
I ask because a thousand miles from nowhere, living on a diet of dried food, never getting a good night's sleep, burning 5000 calories per day, desalinating water, navigating...and you emerge looking in the peak of health but as if you'd forgotten to shave a few times [fb account required to view]
notice this team, selected at random, they are just 333 GBP short of their goal. Amazing.
This is the alleged tracker, showing other participants.
among them another team picked at random - again they look fabulously healthy after 3000 miles [unlike say, a marathon runner at the finish]
The teams can all be found here on the live tracker, most have finished as of now, barring four boats still travelling and a further one back at the start ***
https://www.deadlegz.co.uk/live-tracker
*** and this is another media story, a 70 year old English man [most teams are English] "fit as a fiddle"
https://web.archive.org/web/20241209121 ... /#bigpoppa
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0j5984nyjo
Nov 29 2024
but who encountered "technical difficulties" shortly after setting off [no other teams seem to have suffered this]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgmp0g7y28o
Dec 11 2024 [errr, wasn't the race said to start on Dec 12?]
I won't bother looking for any more teams which obviously never had any issues, an amazing success rate with no plan B available.
The previous Talisker Whisky translatlantic challenge did throw up an adverse incident - the alleged death of an Australian skipper shortly after starting [again...]
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... e-atlantic
Jan 6 2024
Race organisers "confirmed" that the "former spy" had died aged 61 from a heart attack on January 4 2024
What happened to the body? Good job it didn't happen 1500 miles out, otherwise there might have had to be a burial at sea.Putt’s crewmates – Stuart Moore, Andreas Koenig and Alastair Horton – were onboard a safety vessel heading back to land.
“This tragedy will of course also have a profound impact on the other 37 teams we have still racing across the Atlantic,” race organisers said.
“The family of Alisdair have asked for understanding and support in respecting their privacy during this period of mourning.”
The next day, fellow entrant and solo Australian rower Liz Wardley posts on instagram about the "passing" of Putt
https://x.com/LizWardley/status/1743358384823550413
https://web.archive.org/web/20231214100 ... -entrants/
One year on...donate donate
https://www.instagram.com/vibethewave_/p/DEZZPlSvMHg/
The Go Fun Me donate needle is stuck at GBP 19999 !!! Hmmm. Someone chip in a quid, quick
https://www.gofundme.com/f/aussie-old-s ... r-veterans
A Scottish "mum" finished the same event in the rudest of health
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... t-68315612
Feb 17 2024
inspiring another Scottish "mum" to take on the challenge in 2024/5
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ... antic-row/
It all sound pretty safe, like flying in a plane. Perhaps it's all real...