Andrew Osborne from Rutland begins to row the Atlantic for Cardiac Risk in the Young (Cry)
A dad has begun his mission to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
Andrew Osborne will spend the next three months on board a six-metre boat with no mobile phone signal and the nearest humans being on the International Space Station.
The Rutlander wants to raise £100,000 to screen 1,000 young people for undiagnosed heart conditions.
His 25-year-old daughter, Amy, died of an undetected condition in 2018, prompting her sisters, Sophie and Jess, and Andrew to raise money for the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (Cry).
Andrew set off on Sunday (January 8) from the Canary Islands, telling family he would like to be met at his destination, Antigua, with a Jack Daniels whiskey with ginger, an ice cold cola, and a burger.
Throughout his journey he will be eating freeze-dried meals and will burn about 5,000 calories a day.
Speaking before he left, Andrew said: “Everything on board the boat will be tepid. My most important piece of equipment converts sea water to drinking water but there’s no way to get anything properly cold. By the time I reach Antigua, I’ll be craving a cold beer. Or, if my navigation is off, I’ll have a daiquiri in Cuba.”
Andrew’s challenge supports Cardiac Risk in the Young (Cry), which will use donations to his fund to screen pupils at state schools in Rutland and Leicestershire.
