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Just after the start
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Wearing our best cow kit
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The view gets rather monotonous
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This was on a calm day
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Oh look - a blade! That's exciting.
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Nice colour, though
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Fabulous sunsets
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Wow!
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Clint rowing (obviously)
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You have to cope with rocking and rolling
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Who needs level hands when you dom't have a level sea?
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Gloves were worn for the first 2 weeks
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... which successfully prevented blisters
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Sun hats are important
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... in creating arty shots
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The hats were donated by Godfrey Rowsports
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A "distant" tanker
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This was taken quite early on, judging from the pale skin and liberal use of suncream
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The aspect of ocean rowing the media are most keen on
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Quick pause for a drink of water
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Are you still there?
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Not much room in this cabin
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...or at this end
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Waiting out a storm
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Note pink cushtie!
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Well, it makes a change from the office, anyway
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Follow the stroke cycle
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Hands unusually level
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Circling the finish as the waves dictate
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Forget everything you ever knew about left in front of right
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This is a serious business
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One of the blades has already gone
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Reach out.... and repeat c.1.5 million times
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Even in good seas you roll around
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You're not having fun, are you, Chris?
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Man with small light growing out of head
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Dirt gets ingrained but look - no blisters!
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Hands in a good state despite being pretty wet
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Clint's famous infected toe
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Another fab sunset
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Hey up, we've got company!
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Support yacht Aurora drops by
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... and takes the photo that appeared on the website on Christmas Day
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The object in his right hand is a scraper for removing barnacles from the bottom
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.... of the boat, obviously
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Great White?
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Over exposed?
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A 5000m deep pool
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Sorry, probably shoudl have censored this one
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Are you going to let me on again?
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An arrival from Runway 1
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Clint is a man of many talents...
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... but beard-growing isn't one of them.
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Salman Rushdie goes ocean rowing
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These cow print tops are so comfortable
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... and the accessorise really well with tinsel
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Does my beard look big in this?
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Christmas Tree
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and tinsel
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We never bothered taking this down, actually
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Those famous buckets, plus a related accessory
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Clint sits down for a Christmas lunch
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... unlike any he has ever had before
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Chris can't work out where the chestnut stuffing is
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... but puts a brave face on the situation
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After Handy Andy met Olga Corbutt
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A sun's eye view
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A whale
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Same whale again
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It had never met a sea cow
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Rough and grey
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You can't see the real horizon when it's like this
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... and are trapped in quite a small watery world
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Up and down
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The colours changed but there was always just sea and sky
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Big rolling swells
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... that go on and on
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... and on
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Water, water everywhere
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Frothy
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... and still no horizon
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Ever changing but always the same
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Here's a version with a bluer sky
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A new angle
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Cobbling the shoes back together - literally
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In another bowl of sea
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Sliding along the waves
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... for days on end
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A view out over the stern
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Fuzzy duck
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The view at night. Which way is the next wave coming from?
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Rowing on the last day towards the end of the rainbow
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... with Antigua in the diatance
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Waypoint=END. Note time (GMT)
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Land!
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