1 00:00:10,204 --> 00:00:13,484 Speaker 1: My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point 2 00:00:13,524 --> 00:00:15,204 Speaker 1: seven podcasts. 3 00:00:14,604 --> 00:00:17,724 Speaker 2: Playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app. 4 00:00:18,564 --> 00:00:20,844 Speaker 3: Jersey and Amanda Gama. 5 00:00:21,204 --> 00:00:24,924 Speaker 1: Our next guests are three brothers fresh from an extraordinary 6 00:00:25,044 --> 00:00:28,284 Speaker 1: journey on the high seas one hundred and thirty nine days. 7 00:00:28,284 --> 00:00:31,444 Speaker 1: It's four and a half months, covering pretty much fifteen 8 00:00:31,484 --> 00:00:35,004 Speaker 1: thousand kilometers, that is, traveling around the perimeter of Australia. 9 00:00:35,084 --> 00:00:41,044 Speaker 1: But they did this non stop rowing from Peru to Australia. 10 00:00:41,084 --> 00:00:45,763 Speaker 1: Their names Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan McLain. What an extraordinary 11 00:00:45,764 --> 00:00:48,204 Speaker 1: time they've had and they joined us. Now, Hello fellers, 12 00:00:49,524 --> 00:00:54,404 Speaker 1: Hello morning. What vessel were you on to be able 13 00:00:54,444 --> 00:00:55,004 Speaker 1: to do this? 14 00:00:56,044 --> 00:00:59,004 Speaker 3: Well, So it's a very specialist kind of rowing boat. 15 00:00:59,364 --> 00:01:02,924 Speaker 3: It's got these two cabins, one either side, and then 16 00:01:02,924 --> 00:01:06,644 Speaker 3: there's kind of space for three rowing positions, and then 17 00:01:06,684 --> 00:01:09,363 Speaker 3: it's covered in solar panels. It's got a water maker, 18 00:01:09,524 --> 00:01:12,244 Speaker 3: it's got all the communications systems that you need for 19 00:01:12,324 --> 00:01:15,204 Speaker 3: doing this sort of thing. Yeah, it looks a bit weird. 20 00:01:15,203 --> 00:01:17,083 Speaker 3: It looks a bit like a kind of dolphin. Yeah, 21 00:01:17,084 --> 00:01:18,484 Speaker 3: it's quite a strange looking beast. 22 00:01:18,644 --> 00:01:20,524 Speaker 2: And do you have to pay some sort of deposit 23 00:01:20,644 --> 00:01:22,244 Speaker 2: for that. What does the people say when you have 24 00:01:22,244 --> 00:01:24,203 Speaker 2: to bring it back because you've taken it for a 25 00:01:24,244 --> 00:01:24,884 Speaker 2: long time. 26 00:01:26,404 --> 00:01:29,164 Speaker 3: No, it's it's we actually helped to build this boat. 27 00:01:29,644 --> 00:01:31,604 Speaker 3: So we were really fortunate to go out and work 28 00:01:31,644 --> 00:01:33,844 Speaker 3: with a guy out in the Netherlands who's a kind 29 00:01:33,844 --> 00:01:37,524 Speaker 3: of specialist ocean rowing boat builder and spent a couple 30 00:01:37,644 --> 00:01:41,203 Speaker 3: couple of weeks building this amazing vessel and. 31 00:01:41,164 --> 00:01:44,084 Speaker 1: So non stop rowing. I can't imagine it. And I've 32 00:01:44,084 --> 00:01:47,524 Speaker 1: looked at the footage the high seas, the horror. They 33 00:01:47,564 --> 00:01:50,164 Speaker 1: were terrifying times, weren't there. Which one of you got 34 00:01:50,164 --> 00:01:51,524 Speaker 1: swept overboard one night? 35 00:01:52,084 --> 00:01:54,604 Speaker 4: That was me? Yeah, so we got we got caught 36 00:01:54,684 --> 00:01:56,764 Speaker 4: up in an anti cyclone about two thirds of the 37 00:01:56,764 --> 00:01:59,964 Speaker 4: way through and on the kind of second night of 38 00:02:00,004 --> 00:02:04,044 Speaker 4: this storm, got washed overboard on a on a night shift. 39 00:02:04,244 --> 00:02:05,604 Speaker 3: Pretty scary, pretty scary. 40 00:02:05,604 --> 00:02:08,044 Speaker 4: But fortunately Youwan was he was on the oars because 41 00:02:08,043 --> 00:02:10,284 Speaker 4: we were just going into the night shift. So the 42 00:02:10,404 --> 00:02:13,924 Speaker 4: nights generally will row with one up and then during 43 00:02:13,924 --> 00:02:16,484 Speaker 4: the day we'll all be up. So but yeah, fortunately 44 00:02:16,483 --> 00:02:18,643 Speaker 4: it was kind of on the transition from day and 45 00:02:18,684 --> 00:02:21,444 Speaker 4: to night you and kind of saw it happened the boat. 46 00:02:21,684 --> 00:02:23,643 Speaker 4: It was a knockdown, which is when the boat kind 47 00:02:23,644 --> 00:02:26,243 Speaker 4: of goes over in ninety degrees and then it comes 48 00:02:26,324 --> 00:02:29,444 Speaker 4: back up the same way. And then I was obviously 49 00:02:29,524 --> 00:02:32,163 Speaker 4: nowhere to be seen, so you and reacted pretty quick, 50 00:02:32,204 --> 00:02:34,644 Speaker 4: and yeah, gave me a hand getting back into the boat. 51 00:02:34,644 --> 00:02:36,004 Speaker 4: And it was all right. 52 00:02:35,964 --> 00:02:37,843 Speaker 2: Because I guess you'd never sleep. 53 00:02:38,964 --> 00:02:41,923 Speaker 5: You get, you get broken sleep, so you crawl into 54 00:02:41,964 --> 00:02:44,444 Speaker 5: the cabins, which I mean half the cabin you have 55 00:02:44,483 --> 00:02:47,364 Speaker 5: to tuck under your feet under the road deck and 56 00:02:47,363 --> 00:02:50,604 Speaker 5: and understandably they're incredibly cramped and hot. You know, we 57 00:02:50,644 --> 00:02:53,804 Speaker 5: had we had so much food, so much food leading Peru. 58 00:02:54,603 --> 00:02:56,644 Speaker 5: We had bags of food on deck. The cabins were 59 00:02:56,684 --> 00:02:59,004 Speaker 5: stacked to the to the to the ceiling, so you 60 00:02:59,084 --> 00:03:02,084 Speaker 5: had this very narrow space that you'd crawl into and 61 00:03:02,324 --> 00:03:04,804 Speaker 5: on the night shifts you'd maybe get between five and 62 00:03:04,844 --> 00:03:06,964 Speaker 5: six hours sleep, but that'd be broken up into about 63 00:03:06,964 --> 00:03:10,444 Speaker 5: three three lots, and in between that you're ruin. So 64 00:03:10,483 --> 00:03:12,724 Speaker 5: there's always there's always someone on the oars, the boats. 65 00:03:12,724 --> 00:03:17,284 Speaker 5: The boat's always moving, and it's yeah, it's pretty relentless, 66 00:03:17,324 --> 00:03:18,524 Speaker 5: as you can imagine. 67 00:03:18,204 --> 00:03:22,564 Speaker 1: It imagine pretty really What were some of the craziest things. 68 00:03:22,644 --> 00:03:25,124 Speaker 1: You saw things that you go, well, that's weird, how'd 69 00:03:25,124 --> 00:03:26,764 Speaker 1: that get here? What were some of those things? 70 00:03:28,764 --> 00:03:29,844 Speaker 4: Oh? 71 00:03:29,964 --> 00:03:31,964 Speaker 3: I mean you see all sorts of sights. Some of 72 00:03:32,004 --> 00:03:36,564 Speaker 3: it's kind of just like nature. So amazing cloud formations 73 00:03:36,564 --> 00:03:38,284 Speaker 3: that you just don't see on land because there's no 74 00:03:38,564 --> 00:03:39,804 Speaker 3: land masses that affect it. 75 00:03:39,884 --> 00:03:40,684 Speaker 5: So you see these. 76 00:03:40,564 --> 00:03:44,164 Speaker 3: Huge, kind of huge clouds. You see a whole distribution 77 00:03:44,244 --> 00:03:48,404 Speaker 3: of very similarly sized clouds, and amazing sunsets and sunrises. 78 00:03:49,524 --> 00:03:51,604 Speaker 3: Sometimes it's quite scary though, you have We have one 79 00:03:51,644 --> 00:03:55,044 Speaker 3: point where there was literally lightning hitting the water, you know, 80 00:03:55,204 --> 00:03:57,524 Speaker 3: around us. It was all around us, these big lightning 81 00:03:57,524 --> 00:04:00,484 Speaker 3: clouds and we're sitting there thinking with the highest point 82 00:04:00,524 --> 00:04:03,004 Speaker 3: on this this ocean, to be careful. 83 00:04:03,324 --> 00:04:05,484 Speaker 2: That's a good point because I was thinking about sharks 84 00:04:06,204 --> 00:04:08,284 Speaker 2: and you're not in really a pirate zone. 85 00:04:08,404 --> 00:04:11,604 Speaker 4: But like my goodness, yeah yeah, and we we kind 86 00:04:11,604 --> 00:04:14,124 Speaker 4: of we got advice from our weather routo. You know 87 00:04:14,124 --> 00:04:16,724 Speaker 4: what do we do in that situation, And all he 88 00:04:16,803 --> 00:04:19,004 Speaker 4: said was just get your We had an anchor chain 89 00:04:19,204 --> 00:04:22,044 Speaker 4: just for when we got amongst islands, but he said, 90 00:04:22,363 --> 00:04:24,844 Speaker 4: if you get the anchor, wrap it around the highest 91 00:04:24,884 --> 00:04:26,884 Speaker 4: book point on the boat and then just drape it 92 00:04:26,884 --> 00:04:29,764 Speaker 4: into the water that it will attract the kind of 93 00:04:29,804 --> 00:04:33,084 Speaker 4: diffuse the any strikes into the into the ocean. 94 00:04:33,764 --> 00:04:36,324 Speaker 2: So not really what you want to hear is so 95 00:04:36,404 --> 00:04:38,524 Speaker 2: you get the tallest brother, because that's what I do 96 00:04:38,604 --> 00:04:41,044 Speaker 2: to my brother because he's always going how taller. I said, well, 97 00:04:41,044 --> 00:04:42,964 Speaker 2: you know what, you know what you're gonna do. You 98 00:04:43,044 --> 00:04:46,044 Speaker 2: stand up with the chain mate and protect us. Well, 99 00:04:46,084 --> 00:04:48,764 Speaker 2: we're glad to see you back. And I just you're 100 00:04:48,764 --> 00:04:51,324 Speaker 2: a freshly shaven all one of you is still still 101 00:04:51,364 --> 00:04:53,004 Speaker 2: got the facial head of the big Moo. 102 00:04:53,804 --> 00:04:55,803 Speaker 1: But when you first landed, you all look like you 103 00:04:55,844 --> 00:04:58,724 Speaker 1: were Tom Hanks, I must say in Castaway, A lot 104 00:04:58,724 --> 00:04:59,683 Speaker 1: of hair, a lot of beard. 105 00:05:00,764 --> 00:05:03,524 Speaker 5: Yeah it was. Yeah, we got shaved on live TV, 106 00:05:03,604 --> 00:05:06,204 Speaker 5: which was quite kind of kind of exciting, but yeah, 107 00:05:06,284 --> 00:05:08,604 Speaker 5: we decided to keep a few new remnants. Lachlan did 108 00:05:08,604 --> 00:05:11,124 Speaker 5: have mutton chops, but I see he shaved him off 109 00:05:11,204 --> 00:05:14,243 Speaker 5: last night. I think the girlfriends won two beat. I 110 00:05:14,244 --> 00:05:17,084 Speaker 5: think this has got limited limited lifespan. 111 00:05:17,444 --> 00:05:20,564 Speaker 2: That's a cookie, that's a cookie duster from hell that 112 00:05:21,324 --> 00:05:24,964 Speaker 2: could that could row back, that could row back by itself, 113 00:05:26,844 --> 00:05:29,364 Speaker 2: two of by itself. Boys, thank you for joining us 114 00:05:29,364 --> 00:05:33,364 Speaker 2: and you've done such a great job. You and Jamie Laughlin, thank. 115 00:05:33,204 --> 00:05:37,004 Speaker 3: You, thank you Chat guys good. 116 00:05:37,324 --> 00:05:39,244 Speaker 2: The McLean Brothers look out for him.