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elliereynolds
Dec 28, 20243 min read
Christmas on Sarabi
When the daylight was gone and I was getting sorted for my night shifts, I called home. My mum read me a quote from my favourite book...
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elliereynolds
Dec 3, 20242 min read
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day / ɡraʊnd.hɑːɡ ˌdeɪ / noun ~ ‘A situation in which events that have happened before happen again, in what seems to be...
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elliereynolds
Oct 19, 20244 min read
Seasick, in bold and caps
We were off. This was it. Everything we’d spent the last 18 months working our socks off for. La Gomera disappeared fast into the mist...
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elliereynolds
Mar 1, 20242 min read
Ocean glitter
Snippet from my journal on 18th December - night 4. It's 4:51am. Wind 18-20knots from the east, gusting 25. The strongest winds we've...
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elliereynolds
Feb 26, 20242 min read
A poem for the fleet family
~ an ode to the 2023 fleet ~ Now the last boat is in, Ian's lit his last flare A sight we all love to see It's brought to a close the...
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elliereynolds
Dec 12, 20232 min read
Hopes of the Ocean
It's been a hot minute since I wrote anything here. I've been keeping up the journal but I have not had an ounce of time to write as much...
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elliereynolds
Jul 22, 20235 min read
Isle of Wight
After countless hours of planning: checking tides, studying charts, watching windspeeds and calculating waypoints for a loop around the...
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elliereynolds
Jul 13, 20233 min read
24hrs on Sarabi
Wondering what it is really like to spend 24 hours on the boat? Read on... I took this from my journal from an overnight weekend row we...
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elliereynolds
Mar 24, 20235 min read
A week at sea school
A major step in making this adventure feel a bit more real was completing a week at sea school. We went down to SeaSports Southwest in...
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elliereynolds
Dec 17, 20224 min read
Waving off the TWAC22 fleet!
Team TSR went to La Gomera to see the start of the TWAC 2022. Summarised in 3 words: all the feels. Here’s the full low-down on the...
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elliereynolds
Dec 3, 20221 min read
There She Rows: meet the team
I feel so SO lucky to be sharing the whole journey with these three! Meet the team: four women united by the same love of adventure and...
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elliereynolds
Dec 3, 20224 min read
Facing my fears
I’ve written myself a list of everything to do with this ocean rowing challenge that scare me. It’s quite long 🧐 I hope that in a years’...
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elliereynolds
Nov 28, 20223 min read
Why am I rowing?
Rowing the Atlantic is a pretty big deal. To cross the 5000km of ocean between La Gomera and Antigua, we will row between us 24hrs a day...
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