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English: Tom McClean, (Location Withheld): "When I was in the Paras in Borneo and had a resupply I read in a newspaper that Ridgway and Blyth had rowed the Atlantic, so in the SAS at Hereford, halfway through my stay I was getting itchy feet and there wasn’t a lot on so decided to row it, I wanted to be the first person to row any ocean alone, unaided. My nickname in the army was Moby as I spouted off at a lecture so that stuck and years later in 1995 I went to William Reed Engineering in Forres and we built the whale from a model, scaling up, starting from the keels up, made from box-section girder. The main plates of the bottom of the hull were 18mm plate and welded in clinker, overlapping, very heavy construction, immensely strong, two and a half years in construction. The big thing when I built the whaleboat was I needed big thumpers, big heavy engines but not knowing they were very noisy, very smelly and burn a lot of fuel but now we are converted and realise the way forward is clean energy and diversifying to electric power, regenerating electric power." Intended for article in Signpost by Ed Gold |
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