{"id":1049,"date":"2024-07-22T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2024-07-21T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T16:51:47","slug":"three-musical-scottish-brothers-look-to-set-another-world-record-cross-pacific-row-from-peru-to-australia-non-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/three-musical-scottish-brothers-look-to-set-another-world-record-cross-pacific-row-from-peru-to-australia-non-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh: first three brothers to row any ocean with Atlantic record set to make history again to cross Pacific non-stop and un-supported in boat they designed themselves to raise money for clean water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\nEdinburgh brothers look to make history with Pacific Ocean row<\/a>
\nA trio of brothers from Edinburgh are set to take on their biggest challenge yet by attempting to become the first team to row the entire Pacific Ocean non-stop and unsupported.

\n\nThe MacLean brothers are hoping to raise \u00a31million as well as breaking two world records when they set off early next year. They will first look to break the record for the fastest human-powered crossing of the full Pacific Ocean when they set off on a 14,000KM journey from Lima in Peru to Sydney in Australia and it is expected to take them around four months to complete.

\n\nThe brothers, named Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan, are looking to do it in a boat they helped build themselves as part of the challenge \u2013 which has been named Rare Whisky 101 Pacific Row. The siblings are also musical and will each take an instrument on board, and have already broken world records in the past. They smashed three of them in January 2020 when they became the first three brothers to row any ocean, and the youngest and faster trio to row the Atlantic Ocean as they did it in just 35 days.

\n\nThey expect to face the same challenges they did during that challenge when they take on the pacific with storms, sickness, sleep deprivation and exhaustion among them. But the main aim of their journey is to raise funds for the charity set up by them and their father Charlie, who is one of the world\u2019s leading whisky experts.

\n\nThe charity provides clean water to developing countries and was devised during their Atlantic challenge. It has already helped build four clean water bore holes in Madagascar helping 800 people in a rural part of the country. They\u2019ve set a target for \u00a31million which they believe could allow them to help tens of thousands of people.

\n\nThe boys will take the rowing in shifts, going for two hours on and one hour off. They had to go without music for entertainment for more than 20 days during their Atlantic ocean challenge after salt water destroyed their phone charger but they\u2019ve got back up in place this time, including bagpipes.

\n\nEwan, Jamie, and Lachlan Maclean are planning to row 9,000 miles from Peru to Australia (14,400-km) in a boat they designed and built to go faster than any before.<\/a>
\nThe brothers made several trips to Amsterdam to help fellow ocean rower Mark Slatts build the boat\u2014which they described as the \u201clightest and strongest ocean rowing boat ever made\u201d.

\n\nAt just 617 lbs., it\u2019s only slightly heavier than the three brothers themselves (280 kg) and it is only a quarter of the weight of their last boat, thanks to the ultra-light carbon fibre technology most commonly seen in Formula One cars. \u201cIt\u2019s a true first of its kind\u201d, said 32-year-old Ewan, who works as a design engineer for Dyson. \u201cBeing involved in that process\u2014from design through to construction, sanding and painting\u2014was an incredible experience.

\n\nFor entertainment on the boat, the three musicians will each bring an instrument along for the trip. Ewan plays the guitar, Jamie plays the bagpipes, and Lachlan plays the accordion. \u201cFor the Atlantic (voyage), I took a set of bagpipes so that I could play them out in the ocean\u2014but also so I could pipe us into the finish line in Antigua,\u201d Jamie told SWNS news. \u201cI\u2019ll be doing the same for the Pacific, because it\u2019s a longer crossing and there will be more time to pass.

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\n\nImage courtesy MacLean Brothers<\/a> and SWNS<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(quote) Edinburgh brothers look to make history with Pacific Ocean row A trio of brothers from Edinburgh are set to take on their biggest challenge yet by attempting to become the first team to row the entire Pacific Ocean non-stop and unsupported. The MacLean brothers are hoping to raise \u00a31millionRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,12],"tags":[67,18,104,39,35,54,52,28,53,60],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-story-teller","post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-health-and-lifestyle","category-life-nature-society","category-us-and-world","tag-environment","tag-life","tag-music","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-ocean","tag-people","tag-places","tag-sports","tag-true-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}