Trio of Scots brothers aiming to break world record for epic Pacific Ocean row
dailyrecord.co.ukA trio of brothers are preparing for a record-breaking row across the Pacific ocean - whilst aiming to raise £1 million.Brothers Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean are planning to row 14,000km from Peru to Australia in a boat they built themselves - faster than anyone ever has before.
The trio from Edinburgh broke records in January 2020, when they became the first three brothers to row across any ocean, and the youngest and fastest trio to row across the Atlantic ocean in their 35 day trip.Now, in a journey they have caleld the Rare Whisky 101 Pacific Row, they hope to become the quickest to cross the Pacific in just 120 days - 42 days quicker than the current record.
Jamie, 30, says that they "thoroughly enjoyed" the experience - and after setting up the Maclean Foundation charity, the brothers quickly decided to complete an even longer row to raise money."Even before we'd set foot back on land, we'd decided that we'd like to go on to do another challenge - but we didn't know what that would be," said Jamie."Pretty soon, we came back around to the idea of doing another row - and it made sense to do something bigger.
We'll be doing a full Pacific row from South America to Australia - approximately 9,000 miles after we add in wiggling around islands."We want to keep the boat moving as fast as we possibly can for the full crossing.
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