Please support David and Garry
Update: David and Garry completed this extraordinary 3,000-mile nautical challenge in the early hours of 22 February. Please join us in celebrating their achievement by making a donation to the Great North Air Ambulance (details below). Thank you!
Can you help David and Garry? Lakeland Rowing Club learn-to-row graduate and member David Ferrier has taken on an amazing challenge. As you read this, he and his friend, Garry Hoyle, team Seas the Moments, are rowing far out in the Atlantic in their boat Molly Moo.
They left La Gomera, in the Canary Islands, on 13 December along with 37 other boats at part of this year’s aptly named World’s Toughest Row, heading for Antigua, some 2,700 nautical miles away on the other side of the ocean. Both in their sixties, David and Garry have taken on this crazy challenge to raise money for the Great North Air Ambulance.
So far conditions have been pretty biblical, with high winds and strong currents meaning some days, despite rowing round-the-clock, they’ve been thrown around like a cork and ended up further from their goal.
They’ve dodged marlin, sharks and tankers, lost their music system overboard, burnt out an autohelm, spent days laid low with sea sickness and, on one truly terrifying occasion, capsized with David swept overboard. But they‘ve survived it all and, almost two months in, tired, bearded, calloused and salt-encrusted, they’re just over 600 nautical miles from Antigua.
Unfortunately, that means they still have weeks of hard, lonely rowing ahead of them. Could you help them along by making a donation – however small – and spreading the word about the challenge they’re undertaking for this great cause? Every bit of cash raised really boosts their spirits – and it could help save a life. This is their Just Giving link: https://www.justgiving.com/.../david-ferrier-garry-hoyle...
You can track their progress on the YB Races app, or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SeasTheMoments2023
A huge thank you from everyone at Lakeland RC!