Care home residents take up oars to support Scots brothers’ Pacific bid
The Maclean brothers are nearing a world record after 134 days rowing 9,000 miles, having raised over £600,000 for Madagascar clean water projects with broad community support.
- On Thursday Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean are due to finish their 9,000-mile unsupported Peru-to-Australia row after 134 days, aiming to raise 1 million for charity.
- Residents at Chamberlain Care Home in Edinburgh have taken up physio-led rowing sessions to support the trio and will hold a bake sale and concert on Thursday with a live stream of the arrival.
- Sheila Burtles, 95-year-old care-home resident and the ship's log custodian at Chamberlain Care Home in Edinburgh, plots the brothers' progress from their daily updates.
- So far the campaign has pulled in more than £600,000, aided by the brothers' uncle and cousin who raised £2,100 rowing 25.2 miles down the Tay to Wormit Boating Club, Dundee.
- Despite harsh weather and a changed destination, the Maclean brothers remain on track to attempt a new world record for the fastest unsupported Pacific crossing by rowing boat after abandoning Sydney.
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3 brothers attempt a record-setting row across the Pacific
It’s a story of three brothers, a boat and thousands of miles of ocean. The Maclean brothers from Scotland are in the final stretch of their attempt to row nonstop across the Pacific from Peru to Australia. They’re going for more than a world record — they’re raising money for clean water projects in East Africa. John Yang spoke with the brothers when they were about 500 miles from Australia.
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UpstractWhy three brothers are attempting a record-setting row across the Pacific Ocean
It’s a story of three brothers, a boat and thousands of miles of ocean. The Maclean brothers from Scotland are in the final stretch of their attempt to row nonstop across the Pacific from Peru to Australia. They’re going for more than a world record — they’re raising money for clean water projects in East Africa. John Yang spoke with the brothers when they were about 500 miles from Australia.
Evening Standard
Care home residents take up oars to support Scots brothers’ Pacific bid
Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean described the support they have had from back home as ‘humbling’.
Care home residents take up oars to support Scots brothers’ Pacific bid - Rother Radio
Residents at an Edinburgh care home have taken up rowing sessions to show their support for three Scottish brothers aiming to become the fastest team to row across the Pacific. Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean, who used to visit their grandmother at Chamberlain Care Home in Edinburgh, are on day 134 of their unsupported, non-stop journey from Peru to Australia to raise £1 million for clean water projects in Madagascar. They are expected to comple…
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