Andrew Bedwell compared it to being 'stuck in a wheelie bin, on a rollercoaster for 90 days'
A daredevil dad from Lancashire has shipped his self-built one-metre boat to Canada - which he hopes will become the smallest ever vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
He added: “I think the biggest thing I’ll miss will be a cuddle from my daughter. But I wanted a big challenge before I’m 50 - and I'm taking on a huge challenge in a tiny vessel.” He said: “For the last two and a bit years, I’ve been working on this boat, and it’s been taking up 70 per cent of my time. It’s been in the workshop, and now it’s kind of almost all gone. I felt a bit sad when I dropped her off.
He said: “When you get into a storm, you’re then just battening it down and just hoping for the best. You’ve got vessels who are also in the storms, and they’re not always looking out for you. That’s probably my biggest apprehension.Andrew will spend most of his three months at sea sitting down inside his cockpit - only being able to stand up and exercise when the weather is calm enough.
“So you need to get into a frame of mind that this is all doable and we’ve done everything. No one can really say how much weight I’ll lose because there are not many people who have sat still for three months with so little movement.
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