Ocean rowers: what do they REALLY do out there?

This post is really just a 'heads up' at this stage ...

Now that Olly Hicks, of Flying Carrot fame, has got taken ashore in New Zealand, I must stop procrastinating, and get round to writing up a waffle on my take of the exploits of ocean rowers I have kept tabs on in the past year or two, ie

* Roz Savage crossing the Pacific in stages.
* James Castrission & Justin Jones, Crossing the Ditch (ie the Tasman Sea, Australia to New Zealand)
* The late Andrew McAuley and his fatal attempt to cross the ditch further South,
* Olly's attempt to circumnavigate the planet even further South, via the Southern Ocean