Bob Barber
Cabbies Do Atlantic Row Team Member
Bob Barber
I have been driving a cab around this great capital city of ours for 20 odd years and Ive put my name down for the Atlantic Dash which is to row the Atlantic ocean with three other London cabbies and raise money for three charities.
By the time of this announcement I will have done another challenge of climbing Kilimanjaro with the London taxi drivers “Cabbies do Kili” team and was on the lookout for the next challenge and this one definitely is huge!
Having no experience of rowing a boat across the Atlantic ocean, this will certainly be a test emotionally physically and mentally. But isn’t that the reason why people do these sort of things, to accept the challenge to test yourself and to push your own personal limits? We want to see if its possible for some everyday cabbies to achieve this without any formal rowing skills or any nautical competency just ordinary blokes doing an extraordinary thing.
I volunteer for one of the charities that we will be raising money for, the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. I am lucky enough to know some of the men who served in the Atlantic and the ones who did the convoys up to Archangel in Russia during WW2 (I hope we don’t get that cold) I can get plenty of advice from them.
“We all have two lives, the second one starts when we realise we only have one”
Bob Barber
Stuart Lockhart
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Daren Parr
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John Dillane
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