Day 46 – Rowing By Numbers

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Day 46 – Rowing By Numbers

As our journey continues and we inch closer to the Hawaiian Islands, it is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid constantly thinking, discussing and dreaming about numbers. How many nautical miles have we travelled in the last 48 hours? How many more days will it take us to reach Honolulu if we can average a speed of 2 kts? How many more days of snack packs do we have left?
In keeping with this theme, I thought I would share some numbers with you.

0 – fish caught (this does not include squid and flying fish washing onto deck)

1 – Albert the albatross – our daily visitor and good luck charm

2 – starts – one from San Francisco on 20 April and one from Santa Barbara on 12 May following an unscheduled stop to resolve a problem with our battery charging system caused by water damage

3 – buckets on board – red bucket, black bucket, washing bucket

4 – boats seen in the last 3 weeks, all cargo ships

5 – girls on the Pacific – Izzy, Laura, Emma, Natalia and Doris

6 – majestic whales that swam alongside Doris on 18 June

7 – our top speed – 7.4kts reached surfing big waves

8 – times each crew member has called home since 20 April

9 – items of clothing currently hanging off Doris drying in the sun

10 – times we have listened to Nat’s cheesy RnB/HipHop playlist

13 – hair washes aboard Doris

16 – days at sea between San Francisco and Santa Barbara

17 – movies/books retold as entertainment for the other rower on the oars in a night shift: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Hitch, Gladiator, Pride and Prejudice, Cool Runnings, The Proposal, Notting Hill, Braveheart, Les Miserables, The Holiday, Good Will Hunting, Forrest Gump, The Notebook, Top Gun, The Book Thief

46 – days at sea since we left Santa Barbara

62 – total days at sea

248 – 2000kcal snack packs consumed

283 – times we have boiled our Jetboil stove to make our freeze dried meals or hot drinks

348 – 2 hour shifts rowed by each rower since San Francisco

696 – times our alarm clock has gone off

750 – grams of of talcum powder used

1420 – nautical miles rowed since we left Santa Barbara (this value will differ slightly from that on our website as our onboard GPS tracks us continually while the Yellowbrick tracker which provides the data for our website polls every 4 hours)

1930 – nautical miles rowed since we left San Francisco

2784 – litres of water drunk

7926 – diameter of the Earth in miles

8446 – total number of miles Doris will travel from the USA to Australia

70300 – number you can text DORIS to (in the UK) to donate £3 to our amazing charities Walking With The Wounded and Breast Cancer Care

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2 Comments

  1. JG says:

    Nothing like numers for spurring you on. Less than 800 Nms to go now! The Where’s Doris thingy hasn’t caught up with you yet but it’s quite easy to work out on Google Earth provided the dots are keeping up? Well done Crew you seem to have developed a winning formula. The solar powered aircraft has taken off from Japan and is heading for Hawaii as we speak. It is due to take five day to get there in one hop – so fingers crossed there.

  2. JG says:

    Nothing like numbers for spurring you on. Less than 800 Nms to go now! The Where’s Doris thingy hasn’t caught up with you yet but it’s quite easy to work out on Google Earth provided the dots are keeping up? Well done Crew you seem to have developed a winning formula. The solar powered aircraft has taken off from Japan and is heading for Hawaii as we speak. It is due to take five day to get there in one hop – so fingers crossed there.

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