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Modern Wisdom

#001 - Stu Morton - Rowing The Atlantic Solo

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Stu Morton is an ex-Marine and endurance athlete who is planning to row solo from Mainland Europe to Mainland South America, solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Find out how far 1.5 million oar strokes gets you, why gaining 30kgs is sometimes ok and why he's going to be mostly naked.

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0:00.0

What are you wearing to rowing?

0:02.0

So generally, I think 80% of the time people will row naked.

0:06.0

Completely naked, yeah.

0:08.0

Completely naked, yeah.

0:11.0

Music

0:26.0

That was again, Hollywood style.

0:28.0

So, Mr. Stuart Morn, welcome.

0:30.0

You're right, how you doing?

0:32.0

How are you?

0:32.0

Good.

0:33.0

Fantastic.

0:34.0

So we've known each other for nearly a year now.

0:35.0

Through Reebok time side.

0:37.0

I think you were the bits and pieces as well.

0:39.0

And since I met you, you've had an idea that I think is probably one of the maddest things I've ever heard.

0:41.0

It's a sort of story that you hear about in the news, but you never actually know anyone who's going to go ahead and do it.

0:48.0

So I guess in short, what's your next three months going to look like, what are you doing?

0:54.0

I'm going to row Wooden Rowan boat from Portugal through Venezuela,

0:59.0

which has actually never been done before by anybody.

1:04.0

So it's been done by a team of five guys before, but never done by someone on the road.

1:07.0

So it'll be like a world first.

1:13.0

So you're rowing across the Atlantic Ocean.

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