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When amateur oarsman Martin Wood sets off alone in Pacific Pete today to
row across the Atlantic, anyone can follow his progress by logging onto
www.3000miles.co.uk a website designed and implemented by Black Sun Plc.
www.3000miles.co.uk will track Martin as he makes his three-month or so
journey from La Gomera in the Canaries to the West Indies, ideally
Barbados, in aid of The Children`s Adventure Farm Trust (CAFT).
www.3000miles.co.uk includes information on Pacific Pete (named after
Peter Bird, the father of ocean rowing and the first man to row across
the Pacific), Martin, his journey, his training schedule, his
provisions, his daily routine, his sponsors, and CAFT (based in
Cheshire, which provides holidays for disadvantaged children).
Martin, 33, will keep in touch with his wife, Joanna, two sons, Oliver,
5, and Toby, 3, on a GPS satellite phone. Joanna will update
www.3000miles.co.uk with Martin`s progress - and any photographs he may
take - regularly via a remote link set up by Black Sun. The site is
linked to the Royal Geographic Society`s official ocean rowing website,
www.oceanrowing.com.
Martin, who has worked in the City and spent the last three years
planning the trip, is rowing the Atlantic so that his "sons can in years
to come be proud of their father, the ocean rower. I don`t want them to
think of me as someone who has just worked in the City". |
