Harry Amos, Pacific Ocean rower
In episode 19, we talk to Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
We discuss how he had to speak to over four hundred leads to get the expedition funded, how ‘it will pass’ became the team mantra, the unique weather challenges of rowing the Pacific Ocean, breaking the rudder, deploying the para-anchor 3 times and being hit by Storm Calvin!
Find out more about the incredible expedition at https://brothersnoars.com
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00:00:00 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And welcome to the Tales of Venture podcast.
00:00:03 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And again, it was in. It was.
00:00:04 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
At late at.
00:00:05 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Night. So Olly. Olly, look.
00:00:06 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Look, look. And he looked up and then that just built up and up and up and.
00:00:10 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Up and up and hit us.
00:00:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Right behind us, we've broken all into.
00:00:13 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
My brothers room.
00:00:14 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Page one last spanner in the works.
00:00:17 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It's about 3:00.
00:00:17 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
O'clock in the morning and staring at.
00:00:19 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
My head touching the flag, which is just.
00:00:22 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Being pushed due east and trying to go West and I don't have to look away because they can't see me, but there's hide on.
00:00:27 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The.
00:00:28 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The whole resolution.
00:00:31 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Hi, I'm Chris, your host for every month of the interviewing inspiring adventures dot overcome the hardship, taking risk and doing it differently. The podcast aims, document and learning. They've got these stand out individuals to where they are now.
00:00:45 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
In this episode, I talk to Harry Ames, Old Army friend and one called for the brothers in Laws, Ocean Wellington, that successfully rowed 4500 kilometres from California to.
00:00:53 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Hawaii in 30 Monday.
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And.
00:00:55 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
We discussed how we had to speak to over 400 leads to get the explosion fund.
00:00:59 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Now it will pass beginning Team Mantra, unique weather challenges around the Pacific Ocean, breaking the weather and killing the power anchor three times.
00:01:07 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And being hit by storm.
00:01:08 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Calvin. Hey, mate.
00:01:11 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It's good to finally see you, but it's been 10 years since I've been well over 10 years, been 12 years since.
00:01:16 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
We last caught up on it. It feels it feels.
00:01:19 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
How's it going?
00:01:19 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Well, it it feels like yesterday I now have.
00:01:22 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
A fair bit.
00:01:23 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Of grey hair.
00:01:25 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And that happened quickly, didn't it? And then a lot happened in between, but it feels like I often say that, you know, I do. Apparently. I've got a grown up job and I have to stand up in front of people and like, tell people about, you know, what I do for a living and sell my services. But in in my heart of hearts, I'm just kind of dressing up as a city.
00:01:46 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Like I'm signing and.
00:01:47 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:01:47 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I'm still. I'm still just 22.
00:01:49 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Fresh out of Sandhurst, wearing.
00:01:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
But I'm actually now just up as if you're pretending to know what.
00:01:51 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
But my green suits just hung up in the wardrobe, and I'm just just, you know, just.
00:01:53 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I'm talking about.
00:01:57 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah, he's actually.
00:01:59 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Out of it for.
00:01:59 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I'm ready to reveal and I'm ready to get back on it straight away. Get back on OPS as if.
00:02:03 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I never left.
00:02:04 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I remember all that it was yesterday.
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Like it's just very, very, very.
00:02:10 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Well, mate. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers for jumping into the podcast. It's like when I heard about your your your trans Pacific row. I was like, right. I definitely want to get Harry on the podcast A because we're not caught up in ages, but also.
00:02:22 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Because we're we have like a a very similar mindset in terms of looking for adventures, ways to keep things interesting and and having never done the done the the Pacific race before as like Harry is like the perfect person to get on here. So let's roll into or roll into the kind.
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Yeah.
00:02:37 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Thanks. Yeah, cool. Thanks for having me.
00:02:37 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Of first question.
00:02:39 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah.
00:02:41 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
But there's the mascot. Where did the idea for the the Ocean Rowing Expedition come from? Like was?
00:02:46 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It's a, you know, a a, a thing you're harbouring for years, or was it just literally just like an off the cuff ad hoc project?
00:02:52 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
So actually it's quite of a one. It's quite a wonderful story, which makes me quite emotional when I even now having told it so many times. But this all started actually soon after we first met Chris, so here.
00:03:07 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
16 was it was an amazing time and.
00:03:10 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
We were we.
00:03:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Was lucky privileged enough to be in the brigade? Wrecky force, and as such, we got to let it cool jobs. So we got, you know, fly all the Chinooks into all the all the hotspots, the the weapons caches and the command nodes and ID's making.
00:03:27 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Batteries and all that jazz. And it was everything that we'd hoped it would be very kinetic, very exciting.
00:03:33 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And we did a total of 45 Helly assaults and it was about the IT was the first quarter, it was about the first within the 1st, 10 on the 2nd of May 2012 and we went in on a on an ID factory and it was working. I think we've been shot out on the way.
00:03:53 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And we ultimately went on the compound found and found exactly what we were looking for. Big stash of homemade explosives.
00:04:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Bomb making equipment and all that jazz. We we did the classic denial. So we we sort of blew it up and we were throughout.
00:04:07 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The process we.
00:04:08 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Were being watched and you remember that term being being dicked and there was a.
00:04:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Lot of lot of chatter on.
00:04:12 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The net and it was very exciting. We had a cobra on on standby, so the US attack helicopter was supporting us, keeping things calm whilst we were.
00:04:20 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Going through the various processes that you do when you find this stuff.
00:04:23 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And it was a good day. It was a really, really good day. And and it was some was coming down and it was hot and tired. We've been in several firefights throughout throughout the day, and my plan was to keep a low key exit to to the HLS. And so we'd identified a ditch on the way in that morning. And so the the troop.
00:04:43 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
35 of us took this ditch out of the back of the compound, literally trying to sort of sneak out essential.
00:04:49 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And it was the point point man of the point section climbing out of the ditch on coming up to the right of it. His name is Kyle Royce, not it's called Kyle Royce. Yeah. And he knelt.
00:05:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
On an ID.
00:05:01 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
On the way out. And he it was pretty bad as you can imagine. He he wasn't unconscious. He was actually.
00:05:09 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Cracking jokes even though he lost both of his legs and his arm and soon went under. What? What then, was a induced coma? His last words to me before he went under was boss. My dancing days were.
00:05:22 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Which I could say with a smile because he's done all right since, but we he went in in the Chinook and then I didn't see him again till.
00:05:31 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The end of tour he he was under a an induced coma for 43 days and that he actually had the unofficial record for the British military for the number of deaths. He died nine times in that 43 day period and was resuscitated and woke up life changed forever.
00:05:46 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And then.
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The.
00:05:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And his mum and brother were who his brother's a botnet as well, interestingly.
00:05:55 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Seth was there to, to, to greet him and and you know, you can imagine that moment when he came to realise what had actually happened to him. And one of the first guys who wasn't on that tour but was a light Dragoon who went to go and visit him was a well known in the Ocean rowing community called James Kyle, who rode across the.
00:06:15 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
In Indian Ocean in 2000 and oh, I forget which year, but it he'd done it beforehand. Yeah, and which is a hell of a feat. 67 days on the oars. Like a real, real big.
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Yeah.
00:06:27 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And and he'd said he'd sailed with Rossi before.
00:06:30 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
This all happened and he he just sent. He went to Rosie. Just said, look, don't worry, Rosie. We'll go on an adventure and.
00:06:38 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
A year. A year.
00:06:40 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The next twak, so the next telescope whiskey. Almost a year after he was sort of out of out of Birmingham.
00:06:47 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
He rode across the Atlantic for the first time as as part of a 1/2 amputee crew, SO22 amputee guys two fully abled, including James Kyle. Breaking your record. No one that injured had ever Rd notion before and then cause he's an absolutely.
00:07:02 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Mad chicken lunatic. He then did it again the next year, so he rode the same race twice, except on the second time he did it as part of an all amputee crew. And so. And they had some ahead of the time. He'll tell you a story about, you know, keeping crew dynamics.
00:07:18 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Together, but so.
00:07:19 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
He he he. He was in my troop and now the organisation.
00:07:22 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
That supported him was the Invictus Games Foundation.
00:07:26 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Prince Prince Harry, who? Who set it up, was actually on Herrick 16 with us providing Overwatch and Apache on four of the OPS that we did. And and I had a little bit of connectivity to him and we we got in touch with Invictus and Invictus had helped fund them. And so part of the sort of rationale was that we would.
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Well.
00:07:46 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Raise money from victors as well. So it be this virtuous circle. And anyway, how did it all start, though? So that happened and then like, well, my brother came to this event in London. Rose. He's like finishing events in London was like, oh, Harry, we should grow Nation one day and I.
00:07:59 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Was like, yeah, yeah, this is.
00:08:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Great. Well, we'll do it. And then and then it took COVID and it was 2020, I was in.
00:08:00 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:08:06 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Dubai Ollie was in Stockholm and Sweden, where he lives. And you know, you remember what I was like. We were all, you know, sat on our just twiddling our thumbs. Actually, it was a great time.
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Yeah.
00:08:16 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
To sort of think.
00:08:16 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
About what? We were missing an adventure. And like? Yeah, exactly. It's like like this is it when I get out of this, I'm gonna do, you know, you know, my brother called me up and said.
00:08:20 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
But life gone.
00:08:26 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
This is it. Like if we're gonna make this decision, this is it. And so rowing was the thing. And even then I was pretty unsure because I had a sense of.
00:08:30 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yes.
00:08:38 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The mammoth task, and I'm not talking about the row I'm talking about the organisation, which you'll know it's it's a mammoth task organising this stuff and we're international as well as Dubai, Sweden and I'll tell you about the team in a SEC. But so that's that's how we came up with the idea. But you know that that and that got the.
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Yeah, yeah.
00:08:52 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Ball rolling in.
00:08:53 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
2020 and.
00:08:55 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Then three years passed, planning, preparation, all that jazz.
00:08:58 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
So we actually did it, but that's where the idea came from and that's how we got going.
00:09:04 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Wow, man, it's it's that's that's incredible. I love the story. I've I've met Kyle. I think once about four or five years ago to I think it was just after he'd done the the Rome. Maybe it was like an armed forces rugby match or something like that. Cause was, I can recall this like scene in dressed as pirates with another boot neck. His name was skipped but it it does. It is you kind of.
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Hmm.
00:09:24 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Like touching it all.
00:09:24 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
But how? How do you find the teammates to do this singing and get it funded as well? Cause obviously the the the telescope, the TWAK, the telescope Whiskey Challenge is it's an expensive undertaking, isn't it? So you know the the, the three-year timeline is entirely understandable, but where did you get the the other two funding?
00:09:40 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Ohh completely yeah so.
00:09:43 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
This was always about doing something amazing.
00:09:45 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
My brother and that was kind of the genesis of all, you know, why I wanted to do it with him. And you know, Ollie and I grew up together and we were dad was in the army. So we lived in like Cyprus and gone. And all these amazing places. We were water babies growing up. But then as life happens, you kind of grew apart. And here, you know, we get different. I've been in the army for military for 11 years and all.
00:10:04 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
We had been in energy and sustainability and we were different living, living in different geographies and we become a bit separated. So that's why we really wanted to do something together and begin to kind of renew that. And I I decided that because I've got to do some cool stuff before already, both in the military and and aside from the military and mountaineering, I thought be a good opportunity for for me to step back actually.
00:10:25 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And Ollie and Ollie was the guy that got me off the over the line. So it was only right that he would be the skipper.
00:10:30 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And so we built the team around.
00:10:32 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
His mates and not my mates otherwise it.
00:10:34 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Just would be in.
00:10:34 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Full full the brunettes and and and army officers, which isn't very imaginative. So actually it was far more interesting to get Ollie's mates and and Ollie had been at was it went to Millfield and there was a really good mutual friend of ours in Dubai called Paris Norris, who'd been in Milford with my brother.
00:10:38 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
That's the stuff.
00:10:51 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And I was friends with in Dubai, and Paris was a is a very interesting guy. He he has a TV show called Guy in Dubai and this plays into buy away the funding as well. And so he and he goes on adventures and sky dives and climbs mountains and Pearl dives and races speed boats and all this kind of.
00:11:08 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
So we just thought he was the perfect guy to have on the team. He hadn't done anything like big endurance, but he used to be an athlete when he was at school, he used to be a decathlete decathlete, right? So he was the first guy who was an obvious choice and we just thought in terms of raising sponsorship and raising money, which is super tough to have a profile.
00:11:18
Yes.
00:11:27 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Iran, who had an online following who would already raise money for adventures, was a good guy and then the other chap was a guy called Barney Lewis, who's my boys oldest oldest mates and they again, they're at prep school together.
00:11:41 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And they had, you know, they were just the.
00:11:45 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Old mates, they'd.
00:11:45 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Already done lots of kind of fun adventures, they've, you know, run done the the, the Pamplona bull run and stuff like that. And. And you know, Barney comes from an amazing kind of family. You know, we'll get into it. But you know with.
00:11:52
Yeah.
00:11:57 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Lots of connections.
00:11:58 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And again, so we're building it around relationships.
00:12:01 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The fact that we went back a long way and the value proposition that each guy.
00:12:05 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Brought to the team meant that hopefully when we came to starting, you know this process of raising money, we'd have a good start point and in.
00:12:12 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
My business, my.
00:12:13 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
My business in in the Middle East and the United Arab Emirates has been to help tech companies come here and do business with the government. You know, I help with theirs of sales and, you know, commercial opportunities here help them set up.
00:12:27 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And also I help some of them raise investment and so my job is is is a giant network. So between the four of us we started that process and I'd never raised money for anything like this.
00:12:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:12:38 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
For and, I very quickly realised how tough it was going to be and as you highlight you know the the race system which we did which was under this world's toughest row. You know you pay, you know it's 22,000 and €24,000. Just to put your hat in the ring.
00:12:54 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The boat, the.
00:12:54 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Boat you know is is incredibly expensive, brand new.
00:12:58 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It's expensive second hand and then all bells and whistles and bearing on were in Dubai and allies in Sweden, moving the boat around the world from the UK to Dubai as we did, and then to California.
00:13:08 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know, so you could our logistics bill was, you know, that's another £30,000. So so, so but we decided that there's two ways of doing worrying and and this plays into how you fund it one is you know beg, borrow steel make it happen.
00:13:13 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Wow.
00:13:23 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And you have to, you have to take risk. So you have to take, you have to give in certain areas in order to make that happen. You know, you look for that third or second hand boat and you second hand equipment and do you know Contra deals with the logisticians and all that people to pick me or which is what Paris kind of led the charge and Paris and Ollie led the charge.
00:13:40 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Like, let's present this as a mega challenge and just go big and and present and really go for the money. And as such everything go premium, which is very risky because it's very expensive that way. So so we worked out our budgets was, you know 240,000 lbs. And then we wanted to raise at least 100 grand for.
00:13:52
Yeah.
00:14:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Charity. So we were looking at a 340, fifty kind of ticket and as such, yeah, we built. We were gonna get a new boat, new equipment. You know, we were gonna. We weren't gonna cut any costs, so we positioned it there. We could have positioned it.
00:14:15 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
A bit lower, but both.
00:14:17 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Achieve the aim and we thought that our differentiator would be the fact that we were going high end and we were gonna go, you know, we had Paris and that kind of thing. And then that kind of set the conditions for how we approach.
00:14:28 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Sponsorship which was.
00:14:31 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Luckily, my community of sort of, you know the financials here and the divines, National Finance Centre and my relationships that I had here meant that we had a great start of a 10.
00:14:40 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And Lagarto was a private fund here, just nearby my office. You know, great connections there. They're. They're philanthropic in their nature. They loved our charities. They're actually a UK kind of firm. So they like Team GB kind of thing and.
00:14:55 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Their whole mantra.
00:14:56 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Is giving people the tools they need to succeed.
00:14:58 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
So kind of, you know, no one.
00:15:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Approached them for ocean rowing and that was our first win actually. And and they gave us, you know our our you know our title sponsorship and then as soon as we have that in the.
00:15:05
Yes.
00:15:08 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Bank it all becomes real.
00:15:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And we're gonna pay the deposit on the boat and, you know, paid for the the at the time, telescope, whisky fees and and then you're like, well, now we have to raise the rest of the money cause.
00:15:11 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:15:22
Right.
00:15:22 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Now and then you know, I'm. I'm not exaggerating when I say I.
00:15:26 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I probably out reached out to.
00:15:28 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
400 entities companies and and got a total.
00:15:32 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Of give or take 12.
00:15:34 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know, sponsors to pay and then Contra deals and that as well, you know for clothing, equipment, food. So that's how we get it funded and.
00:15:42 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And my first action and this is quite a good piece of advice, so give to anyone who wanted the new Doctor Ron Ocean, but do an.
00:15:48 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Expensive endeavour. My first thing was to get that cigarette packet, the fab packet, and I just wrote down 10 names and those ten names were people that I reckon there was a good chance that I could.
00:16:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Get.
00:16:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
A good pitch.
00:16:01 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Into and that I had a more than 50% or maybe more than 30% chance of then going with it.
00:16:08 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
That's good. Yeah, that's right.
00:16:09 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Sorry, let's say 30% chunk.
00:16:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And and I was right in in two of those 10 cases.
00:16:15 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then after then I once I run out of those 10, then you're into, you're into blue sky thinking you've
00:16:16 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
That is.
00:16:21 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Gotta.
00:16:21 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Next time.
00:16:22 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then you gotta get out there and that's that a slog. The first, ironically, the first chunk of money was probably the easiest to get. And then and then it was blood from a state.
00:16:32 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
For the rest of it really hard, yeah.
00:16:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, I can totally imagine.
00:16:35 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:16:37 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Well, it it it's, it's it. It reinforces like a lot of things we've we've kind of like come on the podcast in terms of like helping people understand how complex it is to when you sign up to something like an ocean running expedition for example is getting it funded, getting it prepared, getting it organised. Just before I jump into the next question, I don't want to kind of like shed a bit of light on you've got quite an interesting story.
00:16:37
Sam.
00:16:58 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
About where the boat is named.
00:17:00 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You're beautiful from a a personal connection.
00:17:03 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah, well, I say I see it. It was actually it was.
00:17:03 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Which is. So we spoke about 12 people years ago.
00:17:06 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Actually we named it goodbye, my brother in the end. But you're beautiful.
00:17:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Was was it?
00:17:12 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Was gonna be your beautiful. In fact, we're gonna.
00:17:14 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Call it, you're beautiful.
00:17:16 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
After your beautiful so James Blunt, the the the singer is my is my cousin and he was a fantastic.
00:17:24
Yeah.
00:17:24 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Sir, social media and and actually his wife, Sophia Blunt, was a trustee of the Blue Marine Foundation and we wanted to do something, ocean conservation focused. And the Blue Marine Foundation is an amazing UK set up whose mantra is to conserve 30% of the world's oceans by 20-30. We love that. And bringing in that narrative into the story.
00:17:45 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Was important for us and giving back to what we were doing, but also in in acts of sponsorship, raising narrative, it's important as well to be aligned with the right charity. So we had a a military one that was close to my heart. Yeah. And the conservation one, which was close to all of our hearts and.
00:17:59 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Relevant. And so Sophia and James Sophia Blunt were were big champions and. And so it was only right that we, we we called it after. Goodbye, my lover. Goodbye. My rudder, which became ironically true as we almost lost our rudder in this massive storm. In the last two days which almost got us actually.
00:18:19 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And so we were laughing at the time, going. God, we've we've been a total mistake. This this is becoming a reality. We've lost our rudder.
00:18:25 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I.
00:18:28
Ohh well mate then then.
00:18:29 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Let me interrupt like, like, tell us all about the expedition. Like, how did it go? You know, one trade to Hawaii, how did?
00:18:32 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah.
00:18:34 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
How did it?
00:18:35 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah. And they're so.
00:18:36 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It it went, it was. I'll be honest. Like I mean, he's sorry. You see my French, but it was a shitstorm at the start getting off the coast of California is really tough work. And and we we were being pushed in the in in the initial phase up north towards the Arctic and then only half. Well yeah. Only half a day later.
00:18:55 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
We're being pushed SE back towards Mexico.
00:18:58 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Being pushed in every direction apart from the one we wanted to go, which is southwest and you have to punch across this weather system which once which in the end was just driving as SE punch across it as much high W as you can into eventually start hitting the currents and the weather system starts curving around to the West and that was 12.
00:19:17 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Days and we've we've done all of our training in Dubai. And so the biggest swell in the Dubai had been kind of two metres, maybe three on a on a on a stormy day and now and as you know this from the Atlantic. But you know now, now we're now we're cruising 30 to 40 foot roll rollers with Breakers.
00:19:33 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
On top and and it was freezing. Whatever anyone told you about California is.
00:19:34 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:19:38 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
A lie it's.
00:19:39 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
10° in you know June they call it.
00:19:42 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The June gloom.
00:19:43 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
That's what the locals call it, and the waters, the waters, Arctic melt water. So it's 10°. So you're in full foully is the whole time, my brother, my.
00:19:53 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Brother was really.
00:19:54 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Struggling with separation from home.
00:19:57 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
He'd never, you know, had a newborn, a baby on the way and and new newly married. And. And he, you know, he'd never done a big hard thing to this scale. And so he was on the threshold of what he knew very quickly but never missed a stroke, never missed a stroke. He was he was absolutely rock solid. But like, you know, he'll tell you I'm not doing him down he he was playing.
00:20:15 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Tear on the always at certain points.
00:20:17 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And I mean and Paris Norris who, you know, very strong rower, famous for how much he could eat had the worst seasickness you can imagine. So he just puked for five days, didn't he? More so for five days.
00:20:18
Yeah.
00:20:33 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And so and then and then it was to culminated on about day 10 when the weather was so bad, pushing us in the wrong direction. My brother, we broken all against my brother's rib cage and we were being again being pushed 2 E we're trying to go West. So we made the the call to go on power anchor, which you'll be familiar with. And Power Ranger kind of stops you dead in the water.
00:20:45 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Oh.
00:20:53 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
As best as you can, stops you in the water.
00:20:56 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Which we stayed.
00:20:57 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
On for not.
00:20:58 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Long only about six hours.
00:20:59 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
That of all the the the adversity that we've already overcome at this point, the worst time on the whole expedition was that that 8 hours for me I saw guilty, I felt like had we had we just wimped out, you know, had we just, like, taken a short cut, all this stuff goes to your head and you and you're you're exhausted you're and you know you're only sleeping.
00:21:08 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:21:19 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know, five hours a day, so you would think you're just gone like, no tomorrow. And actually I was. I stayed. Why spark her awake for the whole time, feeling terrible. And then as the sun was just some threatening to come up.
00:21:34 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I was literally like door out. The waves are just subsided a little bit. The wind had just shifted a bit South and I remember being on deck and you've never seen such an energetic man that hadn't slept as I was. Just like, let's just let's just get get going. It's so demoralising. So that was a, you know, you again, you've probably been on power and.
00:21:47
Just.
00:21:51 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It really is.
00:21:54 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It's a horrible, horrible thing to do.
00:21:56 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I think we do about four, four or five days on power anchor. Yeah, because we just, we had it wasn't the weather, it was, it was the, it was the current, it was the the boat, you know the we had this like whether issues as well but.
00:22:08 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It it's like you say, it's demoralising because you're just not making any traction. I'm just we're we're eating for our rations here, getting for our our descendants of water and stuff. But yeah, just just wanted to kind of jump in there and highlight how how.
00:22:14
Yeah.
00:22:19 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Big time.
00:22:20 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Hard it is on your own parade is.
00:22:21 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It's every ocean, every ocean roar. Who's been.
00:22:24 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
On it or.
00:22:25 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Do you think it's a rest period? You think it's a time out? It's.
00:22:28 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
A. It's a mental head.
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Back.
00:22:30 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah, to be honest.
00:22:31 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, 100 percent, 100%.
00:22:33 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah, yeah.
00:22:36 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Right. Well, and so kind of what happened. You punched through?
00:22:38 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
That kind of phase.
00:22:39 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
We.
00:22:39 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
That.
00:22:39 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And then pass the weather system.
00:22:41 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then my brother was was very funny. His, his, The his running joke. When when he when he wasn't you know feeling low was it shall pass you know that sort of thing Lord of the.
00:22:49 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Rings shall pass.
00:22:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Like and it is a good it's a really good point and a lesson in life is no matter how ****** something gets, it will pass. You know, day day becomes.
00:22:57 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I love that, yeah.
00:22:58 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Day becomes night. Night becomes day. Yeah, this shall pass. And and as and. And it did pass.
00:23:05 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It was about day 12.
00:23:07 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Where the weather and I remember.
00:23:08 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
That almost the exact moment where.
00:23:10 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Could see for the first time that that flag on the stern was was fluttering actually behind us, having been either having been perpendicular to the right facing SE it was now just slightly at an angle.
00:23:24 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Behind us and we felt that boat speed move up from the dreaded it's kind of 1.6 to 1.8 nought suddenly moved up to a 2.5, and we were like, whoa, we're, you know, we're 59 gas. And so we went from, you know, 25 to 30 nautical miles a day up to like 40 and 50. And we thought that was a lot. And and that just built up and up and up and then.
00:23:31 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:43
Yeah.
00:23:45 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Actually you're you're cruising on at 60 to 70 to 70.
00:23:49 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
5.
00:23:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Nautical miles a day hitting that magical #3. You know when you're hitting the when you get that with the cruising on like 3.13.2 for consistently for like a like a day and you're like, wow, we're really getting there. But so that was that was kind of a wonderful sort of moment.
00:23:57 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:24:06 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And I mean, it wasn't without its there were still some things to hit us and and.
00:24:12 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It was about day 13 day 1213, so it's just as it was starting to get good. We came within a whisker of a tanker having not seen a boat for, you know, a week at that point and we only saw two tankers and this tanker and I'd love to show you the video. We've got it all on camera, this tanker.
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Yes.
00:24:32 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You could just show how much of a bunch of amateurs we were, because in the in the panic of the.
00:24:37 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The moment we were to Barney was on the on the radio talking to this giant ship going turn left, turn left, and I was like, we're going. Oh, what's the what's the correct word for this turn? Turn left. It was only after when we did actually managed to make this ship turn left that we reminded each other that the term is.
00:24:57 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Portside.
00:25:01 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And that and that this, you know, Indonesian captain and he was he was from Indonesia as he discovered was going, I don't know what language these guys.
00:25:07 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Are talking about. It's not.
00:25:09 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
That's for sure.
00:25:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And and yeah, it was really exciting and. And so in the end, we only missed it by probably about look, it's 100 metres, but in reality, but it was coming.
00:25:20 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know you only got a problem when you can't.
00:25:21 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
See the side?
00:25:22 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Of the ship, so we couldn't even.
00:25:23 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
See a tiny.
00:25:24 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Angle of the side of the ship. All you're looking at is the nose and these things move at that. You know 2526 not.
00:25:31 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Cruising and we're moving.
00:25:32 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It 2.8 you know, so you can't get out the way of this thing. So that was exciting.
00:25:34
Yeah.
00:25:39 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
But then then the next bit was interesting. So we had been great. We were making some really good headway.
00:25:44 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then uh.
00:25:46 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know what we thought would be what we would have dreamt about two weeks before when we were in this horrible storm. Coastal Storm was all the wind just disappeared and it went deathly deathly still and the water went flat.
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Ohh my yeah.
00:25:59 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And we thought we didn't like the bad weather pushing it in the wrong direction until until we realised what no weather looked like and no weather. It's horrid. The water gets heavy and if the currents are going slightly at the wrong angle, you go back down to, you know, the 1.6 is 1.7's again. But it will always feel particularly heavy and you get.
00:26:05 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:16
The.
00:26:19 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And you and that was that. Only then did I start feeling like genuine strain and and the pulling of the skin on the.
00:26:25 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Hands and yeah, and.
00:26:26 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Then and because we were now coming up to like we're.
00:26:28 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Coming into the.
00:26:29 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Warmer, warmer currents and the warmer climate the day started heating up as well, and we had.
00:26:35 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Four or five days of doldrums and with their son just beating down on the boat and no wind.
00:26:40 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
To.
00:26:40 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Cool, us. And then we then we got to that kind of praying for weather again and again. It was in, it was at late at night. It was sort of it was about 3:00 in the morning. And I'm staring at my head torch at the flag, which is just dead on the post. And my brothers behind me.
00:26:55 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And it was really, you know, it's like that, it's kind of sleepy rowing because there's, you know, there's no rocking. It's you're like, you're almost like, you're almost of passing out on the orders. And then. And I remember the moment where where the wind the flag fluttered again.
00:26:58 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:27:07 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And I said, Olly, Olly, look, look.
00:27:09 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Look, and he looked up and it and it.
00:27:10 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Was dead still.
00:27:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Was like, cool. And then about 10 minutes later, it fluttered again and then and then you. But you felt that it was changing and we knew because of the weather was that it was gonna change. And then, you know, it's coming to the end of the shift. And and it was like 2 knots now and then it was just fluttering. And then when we came on the next shift at like 6:00 AM.
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Good.
00:27:28 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Sun up ate our breakfast. We had a nice, healthy kind of ate knot tailwind again and then that just built up and up and up and up and up until we were just rocketing along and and it and it was suddenly good.
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Oh.
00:27:41 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
But yeah, it was.
00:27:44 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I just like and then I I remember there's there's moments where, where, where literally everything is definitely calm because it's almost it's almost. It's almost spooky, isn't it? Almost feels like you're in like a film. Or like, I know I don't want the the Bermuda Triangle would look like as well. Like, I remember the same thing where where, like, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
00:27:59 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah, twilight zone during the twilight zone.
00:28:02 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Not one of the yeah, cause like everything is everything is flat. There's no you can see for ages there. Hours are always really heavy. And you're like, what is going on is there?
00:28:09 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Something like happening here like you.
00:28:11 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Know it's really odd feeling, isn't it?
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Sleep well.
00:28:13
Please.
00:28:13 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You just. Yeah. You're so far out at sea, and there's there's nothing to this.
00:28:15 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah, and it's good. Feels it suddenly feels.
00:28:17 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Claustrophobic weirdly and feel, yeah.
00:28:19 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:28:20 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Ironically, it's like wide open. You're in the biggest space on the planet and the Pacific Ocean. You know, when you zoom out, you know, if you turn the planet around 180°, you can't see any land. Yeah, yeah, it's it fits. So yeah, no one ever looks at that. And because there's only like Hawaii and the Polynesian triangle in it. So you can't see any. So you get a sense of the.
00:28:38 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
All of it. So yeah. Yeah. Thank God for the wind. When it came, it made a huge difference.
00:28:43 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah, yeah.
00:28:45 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
What was it like? What was it like just coming into into Hawaii? Like, what was that that last stretch like into Hawaii?
00:28:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Well again we.
00:28:51 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Had we had one last one last spanner in the works and that was on day 35, we got a call from the weather router in the morning and he said there's a big weather system and they'd already named it.
00:29:03 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It was hurricane Kelvin, which was coming in from our coming in from our SE and was on a direct trajectory with Big Island, Hawaii. We were going to kawaii it's like.
00:29:12 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Further north, but there's a there's a wonderful screenshot I've got of the of the storm pathway our our projected pathway to Hawaii and a white dot when we will go into the storm.
00:29:24 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Now, thankfully in. Yeah, but when we we were on deck, we all go on deck that day and we kind of had a kind of.
00:29:29 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
A nice time.
00:29:30 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
For, you know, six weeks on the water. So we had like two weeks of really good weather.
00:29:34 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And we'd forgotten how crap it had been in the doldrums and about well at the start. And we were super complacent. We like, like, you know, cruising away now and then. And then it was one of those and this bit of an army thing. Military thing came out where I was like, actually, this is a really good time to do a bit of a remind and revise on on drills and SOP.
00:29:37 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yes.
00:29:51
Yes.
00:29:52 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
'S because it's going to get spicy.
00:29:54 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And.
00:29:55 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
So we sat down for, you know, on two of us on the orders, two of us up just chatting through capsized man overboard using the drugs, which we haven't done at that point, redeploying the power rancour, making sure the power rank was prepped and dry. All this kind of jazz. And we spoke through it and then.
00:30:05
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:12 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
A day after.
00:30:12 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
That on on almost on the exact moment.
00:30:15 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
We thought it would.
00:30:16 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
At 2:00 AM, my brother and I were on the oars, and it hit us like clockwork right from behind us. So we were and, but thankfully we the storm had actually gone slightly around us. So we got the edge of this storm system. So it wasn't the 100 mile. An hour winds that we were worried about, but it.
00:30:22 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Ohh God.
00:30:33 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Was still the sort of 50-60 mile an hour winds.
00:30:36 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And.
00:30:36 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And at least it was going to be big enough and pushing us in the right direction. But now we were, but now we were facing that the dreaded front flip, which.
00:30:46 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Ohh yes yes yeah.
00:30:46 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Happens very, very.
00:30:47 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Rarely, and these waves were like, really pushing us behind. And of course, you know when you're surfing these waves for some weird reason, a lot of these ocean rainbows also want A twist on that.
00:30:57 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Right. As you'll know as well and then you're side onto the same waves. You then face the.
00:31:02 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The capsize thing and we the the drill, the, the the plan had been throw out the drugs little one first, then big one which will keep our stern our **** into the waves in the right direction and and and we did and it worked momentarily and and then and then but then the bigger of the two drogues.
00:31:02
OK.
00:31:13 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:21 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Popped under the weight of the boat so we could it just it was turned into this, you know, bit of material that was just fitting around. And then when it did that bit of material then wrapped around the other drug, rendering them both used.
00:31:34 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then we went on to our side. So now we're side onto these giant rollers in the wind. Couldn't hear each other talk cause the wind was so loud. And then in the commotion, trying to roll out because, you know, you're trying to roll out. And then in the line then, which we couldn't do because it kind of, you know, that all lock you get it just like it locks and you can't do anything, then it Yanks.
00:31:51 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:54 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
My brother's arm. He dislocated his his arm, his shoulder. Thankfully. Thankfully it was a in and out jobby, but I saw his arm go and he was obviously in a lot of pain and then and then we went to some DEFCON five and the last safe measure was is power.
00:32:09 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
OK.
00:32:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And and so we got, we threw out the power anchor, which is again a challenge unto itself, because the wind was so strong that it just wanted us to. Yeah. Being with the waves crashing over, you know, trying to sort of half stand up, half throw it. There's material flapping everywhere. As you know, there are so many lines. And doing this in the.
00:32:28 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Dark as well.
00:32:29 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Oh my God.
00:32:30 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And so that was a manoeuvre unto itself, and then, and it got it out, though, but then it did what it said on the tin. Turned the nose, turned the nose into the weather.
00:32:39
Yes.
00:32:39 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then it was pretty horrible, but at least we were kind of sheltered. And then of course, we had the drama of untangling the drugs from the rudder. I told you about the goodbye my rudder. That was a funny.
00:32:46
Ohh gosh.
00:32:49 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Moment like.
00:32:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Goodbye. Goodbye, my brother lads. And and and my brother toyed, then jumping in the water on a safety line to get in there in the pitch black. Which painfully, we didn't have to do because we we we managed to from the stern of the boats play with the lines in such a way that we can pull the lines through.
00:33:08 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And we actually managed to get it all back on the boat, which was even in itself was a close call and at one point I was having to lie on the on the sterling deck with Paris holding my ankles. So I get my hand round the the right back cause, you know, it's not designed to to reach into the water. So that was a stupid manoeuvre and and then and then and then this is kind of.
00:33:22
Yeah.
00:33:28 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
One of the my wonderful moments and takeaways from from the whole trip is that, you know, we were on power ranking for not long, literally maybe 2-3 hours when the sun was coming up and and the worst of the storm will pass, but the swell was still massive and the tail one was still massive, but it was like in a good way.
00:33:44 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And you know, the waves are now down to like 25 foot, but tailing we had a the wind was absolutely square on the stern and we found ourselves going like greasy weasel. ****. And we we just surfed.
00:33:59 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
For 24.
00:34:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Hour solid. No exception. Every wave was a was, you know, we got.
00:34:04 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
We got the boat up to 13.7 knots. Our average speed was 6.5 knots for the day and and we.
00:34:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Were just whipping like.
00:34:12 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Like little children.
00:34:14 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know, you know when the when the.
00:34:15 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Surf gets that big. You can't use the.
00:34:17 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Auto tiller. So we had two guys on the oars. One guy stood in the middle on the lines, just stood up like riding a like riding a horse. And we did. We did 105 miles in a 24 hour period, 160 K and and and we were just, you know, was the best day ever. And and my point being here is that.
00:34:23 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:34:30 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Wow. Wow.
00:34:37 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And. And someone told me this once. I told them the story, he says. That's a classic triumph from disaster story. Like it was the worst moment that challenged just more than anything, probably any of us have ever done, certainly in the water, which led to the most triumphant moment. And and it's often the biggest challenges in life that propel us forward.
00:34:56 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And.
00:34:57 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And and it absolutely did that and and then and then we found ourselves, you know, only a day away from Hawaii. And knowing that our, you know, loved ones were were only, you know, miles away and and then and just. And to answer your question about what it was like coming in, we then had this problem where we were going so bloody fast that we realised we calculated that we were going to come in.
00:35:19 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
At.
00:35:20 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Midnight and uh, the problem with coming in at midnight is we had a.
00:35:25 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know, we were doing this big sponsorship thing we had, so we were filming a documentary and so we had camera people on the other end. And also I've got new, you know, kids. So you don't have to get them up in the middle of the night there in Hawaii. So we made the decision and we and our position in the race was.
00:35:36
Yeah.
00:35:40 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Already set.
00:35:41 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Yeah, we were.
00:35:42 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Solid 5th. There's no way anyone behind us was going to get us.
00:35:45 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
No way we're going to get the crew in front. So we made the decision to slow.
00:35:48 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Come.
00:35:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And and so we. So we stopped worrying and we then let the oars drag in the water. We put, not we we put the broken drugs back in the water just to get some resistance. And and we were still going at 4 knots and then we realised we realised that we were still going to come in at like 4:00 in the morning.
00:36:10 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
So so there were there were periods of time where for like an hour at a time.
00:36:14 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It was literally pressing, leaning through on yours.
00:36:18 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It's a drag.
00:36:18 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
To get a little bit more resistance out.
00:36:20 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And increase the drag and even then, we weren't slowing down. So we actually hit the call and and we're talking we're less than 20 miles from Hawaii at this point. We made the calls, gone powering for one hour.
00:36:32 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah. Tesla.
00:36:33 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
We went on power anchor for an hour.
00:36:35 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Which?
00:36:36 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Just got us into like we calculated we come in in the daylight and then we go back on the oils again. We won't have to pull very hard because we're going so bloody fast.
00:36:46 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And we we, the sun was coming up at whatever 6:00 AM and we we hadn't seen Hawaii the day before because a cloud cover ahead of us. And we caught the lighthouse just at first light, which was still blazing. And then you're faced with this beautiful green wall that is Hawaii from from the sea to the clouds and then.
00:36:53
Yeah.
00:37:02
Yeah, well.
00:37:05 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then you know, it rains a lot in the Pacific as you, as you can imagine. And so you see a lot of rainbows. But on this particular moment, the sun was coming up behind us from.
00:37:14 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
East there was there was cloud cover above us, but blue sky everywhere else. So it was a beautiful panoramic view and it was raining on us and there was like a rainbow around us. And the sun was in our faces and it was this kind of biblical moment of wow. Like, this is coming to an end and and got how lucky we've been to have experienced this and.
00:37:19 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Ohh wow.
00:37:35 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know, it was almost tear jerking and you know he it was a wonderful moment to celebrate. And just knowing that our family were now only 5-6 miles away and and we rode the current in and and.
00:37:47 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then we're going to this place called Hamleigh Bay, which is this beautiful.
00:37:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know Bay, which is one of the early earliest points where pond lesions settled and and knowing that there's a there's a peer that comes out and all our family with my daughters and you know, mum and dad and all that were there and you we turned the corner. And of course there's three of us rowing facing backwards and my brother was on the stern steering of the lines.
00:38:10 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Now we're.
00:38:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Ollie. Ollie, what can you see? What can you see? And he's like, oh, you know, I.
00:38:15 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Can see I can see the pier.
00:38:17 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And of course, no turned turned South. Now the wind, weirdly, was in our faces and said that last the last mile we're going like .4 knots. And so it was like slow motion coming in. And then. And I was like, you know, it's over exciting. Olly Olly, can you see them now? And he's.
00:38:34 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Like. No, no, no change. We've moved 10 metres high.
00:38:37 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then and then it was finally, he said. Harry, if you wanna take a look, take a look over your shoulder now.
00:38:43 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
It's a global measure and I got that first glimpse of my my girls and and Phoebe, my wife and and. And there's a, you know, as you learn in the military, it's very it's not useful to think about home too much when you're doing these things. Pack it in a box. It's there. It's safe and sound. You can open it when you want, but you don't need to dwell on it. You need to focus on what you're doing.
00:38:53 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, I understand. Yeah.
00:39:02 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And I I instilled that in the crew and my brother and we'd all followed that kind of school of thought as best we could. And we'd had a great time, you know, together and bonding as as a four. But that box was there, but I didn't quite realise how spring loaded the box was because as I looked over my shoulder and I saw my 2 girls and.
00:39:20 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
My wife, that kind of like that, sort of Stony faced, you know, stoic, that I pretend to be as much as I can, then turned into a a crying wreck of maybe born of a wreck, you know, whenever and and. And I then had to look away because I was like, no, they can't see me like this. And I said bored for a.
00:39:38 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Moment, then managed to pack it back in the box.
00:39:40 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
One moment.
00:39:43 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And then and and then and then we rode into the beach. And it's a great finish cause you literally roamed onto the sand. So you're under the sand and then you'll remember that at that moment of jumping onto heart. So you then jump out of the boat into the water, which is way steep.
00:39:57 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And that sand feels.
00:40:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Feels like it's harder than concrete.
00:40:02
If you dispute.
00:40:03 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Better than concrete. It's like a so your body isn't actually supposed.
00:40:07 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
To do it.
00:40:08 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And of course, they're there, ready to hold you and walk you in the last 50 metres. But of course we're proud. And and we're, you know, we're we're masculine men. And so you've never seen full men trying to prove a point looking like drunken fools. Who?
00:40:21 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Second round.
00:40:22 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Wobbled up through.
00:40:23 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The thing to literally like collapsing on my knees to to my children who are then on the seashore and hugging them and and it was an amazing.
00:40:31 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Very emotional and wonderful. Arguably the happiest moment of my life. I'd say wow, it was pretty, pretty amazing.
00:40:36 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Epic, epic, epic. I was gonna ask, like, one lesson and any advice you've got for people who want to consider doing any ocean run expedition in the future? Yeah.
00:40:47 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I yeah, a great question. And I've thought about this a lot. There are a few things.
00:40:52 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
First of all.
00:40:53 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Admin, admin, admin, soldiers as you know, call it being squared away, but whatever you, whatever you call it, it is. It is, you know it's your responsibility as we learn as boot neck and the soles and officers we learn to look after ourselves and if you look after yourself.
00:41:05 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
M.
00:41:11 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Properly and you feed yourself and you look after your hands and you wash your pits and you and you, you, you make sure your glass is full and your top has screamed the whole time. You'll always be the best person you can be. And you you're it's much easier to help those around you.
00:41:26 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
If you were, if you've looked after yourself, it's better to fill other people's cup up with a full cup. If everybody's cup is empty, you can't look after anybody, and God forbid you become a casualty and people have to look after you and then and then you're taking away from the crew instead of adding to it. So it personal admin, I'd say it was a massive 1.
00:41:33
Fibre.
00:41:43
Yeah.
00:41:46 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And we we really hammered that home and we had a competition to see who could eat the.
00:41:49 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Most the whole time love that just like.
00:41:54 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
You know, we and we was basically 6.
00:41:55 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Meals a day and I'd make a point of eating.
00:41:57 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Seven. And you know.
00:41:58 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I like watch me down this.
00:42:01 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Peanut Butter 1000 calorie thing in 15.
00:42:03 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Seconds.
00:42:04 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The man test, as you know because it requires an entire litre of water to wash the blow thing down. So we did that. And so that was that's the first thing. The second thing I'd say which I love and actually being a war Marine reservist, taught me this, and I love the the, the values and standards that that you guys have. And my favourite one is cheerfulness and adversity.
00:42:25
Yeah.
00:42:25 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And and I think I think the cheerfulness is a superpower.
00:42:30 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And you can convince yourself that everything's alright if you can. If you can pull off a wide grin and crack a joke to your oppo next to you and I. And I absolutely took this through Sam Hurst and my entire Army career and and to take the **** out of people next to you and yourself. And you can always get a laugh and then it's competition with.
00:42:30 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:47 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:42:51 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
How dark can it get and still crack a joke? And and I, and cheerfulness, is, is infectious, if you're cheerful.
00:42:58 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, people won't be.
00:42:59 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Cheerful, just like being calm, is calm, is infectious, and just like panic is infectious.
00:43:03 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And.
00:43:06 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Did you know, cheerfulness I'd say was, uh, was a really big one. And then my last one, which I was a piece of advice given to me before I left. As I I know from my army days and and just because I know myself that I'm, I'm outspoken to I'm I'm a bit of a ********. I can be overbearing so I can my presence.
00:43:26 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Drown out other people and I've always known that. And I. And so I I have to.
00:43:30 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Consciously bring it back and on a small space in a confined environment that can **** people off. So. So I know that about myself. So I thought about that a lot and then one a really good old family friend of mine called Simon Ledger, who was another like Dragoon, who knew, knows me better than anybody, took me through RCB and all that kind of stuff, coached me and he said Harry.
00:43:35
Yeah, yeah, yes.
00:43:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Love you, but remember this of the unspoken word you are, master, which is basically code for shut the **** **.
00:44:00 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I and and if you're pisssed off or if you've got a pain your bonnet about.
00:44:05 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Something just die.
00:44:06 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
The back. Think about it, and if it is ******* you off and it's something that you need to address as a crew.
00:44:12 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Go to bed. Sleep for two hours, come back and talk about it calmly. Fix whatever problem it is and it's kind of the cornerstone of slower system as well is that you know, you just don't don't get over the emotion about things. And if something needs to be addressed, just find the right time to do it. So and we we all did this. So we tried to complain and we tried to.
00:44:17 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:44:32 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And to deal with issues having slept on them. And as you know, you know, it's a tight space and people great on you, even the people who love the most in the world, that great on you.
00:44:40 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah.
00:44:42 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
So, so keep stung. Go to.
00:44:44
Good.
00:44:45 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Eat some food and then address it. So.
00:44:49
They.
00:44:50 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Those are my three, like rowing, rowing tips. There are many more, many, many more, but I like those ones kind of resonated with us. And then to answer your question and you know in terms of like how to get started, every task, when you look at it in its entirety.
00:45:06 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Is mammoth. Yeah. And you could very easily get put off by the sheer vastness and scale of a challenge. But it really does come to one step. And if you can take that tiny first step, however minuscule it is.
00:45:21 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
And eventually you do enough many steps and get the ball rolling. Suddenly this mammoth task is broken down into bite sized chunks and it all suddenly turns into a very doable venture. And the first act that got me across the line mentally.
00:45:36 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Was that process of who's going to pay for this and how am I going to get the sponsors on board? So I did that fact packet list and as soon as I wrote that list I looked at it and I went.
00:45:46 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
I think I think I can solve this.
00:45:48 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Problem because this.
00:45:49 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
To me is the main problem. If I can get this funded, the rest will happen. I can buy boats. I can, you know, train. I can get in the gym. I can do all the stuff. We can build a team and and that's what how it started for me. So that was that first thing. It might not be the same for every expedition. You know, I hate the fact that it can be about the money.
00:46:07 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Sometimes, but yeah, it is a big it is a big factor, but whatever it is, just take that first tiny step and you never know what can come from.
00:46:09 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It is.
00:46:15 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, that's that's an absolutely brilliant piece of advice to end on it. It it, it's it. It sounds incredibly wise and I think just hugging back to one before that as well. You're, you know, the the one about about remembering to sleep and eat before kind of confronting those really thorny issues. I think that's that's something I think you can apply to everyday life as well, isn't it, you know.
00:46:16
So yeah.
00:46:35 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Just times when I'm massively outspoken, I'm not have to wind myself.
00:46:35 Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days.
Big time.
00:46:39 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Back in a notch. So yeah. I mean, I've. I've learned chanting has been absolutely fantastic, mate with this, this ocean expedition, I could easily do another hour and I realise you've got a call now. So I'm gonna get in the way of.
00:46:50 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Mates, I'm gonna.
00:46:50 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I'm gonna leave it right there, but say thank you again so much mate for for jumping in on this. And then yeah, look forward.
00:46:57 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
To catching up again soon.
00:46:58 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
May absolute pleasure. It's really great chatting to Harry and learn about how he and the team tackled the Pacific Ocean. You want to know more about the expedition? Check out the shorts below and we'll see you next time.
In episode 10, I talk to Alice Morrison, an international author, explorer, and adventurer, known for her writing about her travels to and experiences in remote, challenging, and sandy locations in the Middle East and North Africa.
Often highlighted as the ‘Indiana Jones for girls’, she is the author of "Walking with Nomads", and "Dodging Elephants," which detail her journey through the Sahara Desert.