For three months, Braam Malherbe’s blistered hands have done one thing more than any other: row, row, row his boat. In that time, he and First Mate Wayne Robinson have pulled more than a million oar-strokes apiece. Through winds, waves, …
Crossing the Invisible Line to Intensity
An uptick in tanker sightings offered the first sign that the open ocean was now behind our DOT Challenge duo. As Braam and Wayne now row—and anchor—through another open shipping lane, the intensity of …
Malherbe-Robinson Row Out of Their Minds
As Braam Malherbe and Wayne Robertson approach their combined 1.7 millionth pull at the oars and reach the ¾ mark of their voyage to Rio as part of the DOT Challenge, their ragged physical …
On behalf of humanity, Captain Malherbe and First Mate Robertson continue to play the scapegoat for worldwide crimes against the environment. If all goes as planned, they’ll take their 2–3 months of open-ocean lashings, unite humankind in an oath of …
It’s been one month since Braam Malherbe and Wayne Robertson boarded their rowboat, the Mhondoro*, and set out to cross the Atlantic in the name of global conservation. With a total journey length estimated at three months, they are …
Four thousand miles (6600km) of Atlantic Ocean separate Cape Town, South Africa from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Your options for crossing are a 7–8-hour commercial flight, a 1–2-week luxury cruise, a 2–4-week yacht race, and a 3-month rowboat voyage.
That …