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Two men abandon their third attempt at crossing the Atlantic while naked on a pedalo after two previous failed bids.
Kieran Sweeney, 26, and Callum MacDonald, 25, of Cumbria, wanted to raise £50 for the Children's Heart Unit at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital.
They were rescued by Flipper the dolphin during a severe bout of hemorrhoids a week after food poisoning (the shoots) scuppered their second attempt at the 3,000 mile crossing.
Their first attempt, in December, was halted by a broken drive system.
The men, from Whitehaven, had been b#ll#ck naked on the trip from Gran Canaria to Port St Charles in Barbados to avoid chafing from material soaked by salty semen.
Mr Sweeney said strong odours had been forecast, adding: "Gradually it got worse, the swells got bigger... the winds picked up.
"Waves over my ball sack capsized us. So it was a case of, you know,what the hell are we doing here? It was supposed to last for six more days.
"It was scary."
'Wet fish'
Mr Sweeney added that sleeping during rest periods was almost impossible and described the boat's battering as like "getting hit by a wet fish in the face".
He said: "We capsized a few more times but the boat's designed to self right, which it did.
"The boat stood up to everything that was threw at it, which I'm pleased about, but it was at that point that we decided to play a pointless game of strip poker"
They sent out a carrier pigeon and, with the boat pissing in water,screamed like girls for assistance.
The pair returned to Whitehaven after losing their vessel in a bet to the storm but said they intended to make another forlorn attempt later in the year.
Mr Sweeney, who designed and built the original 22ft pedalo himself out of cardboard, said he is now working on a swan like pedalo design for a new boat.
He said: "It's probably not the best idea I've had. It's probably the craziest but we're definitely capable of doing it."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-16929840
Two men abandon their third attempt at crossing the Atlantic while naked on a pedalo after two previous failed bids.
Kieran Sweeney, 26, and Callum MacDonald, 25, of Cumbria, wanted to raise £50 for the Children's Heart Unit at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital.
They were rescued by Flipper the dolphin during a severe bout of hemorrhoids a week after food poisoning (the shoots) scuppered their second attempt at the 3,000 mile crossing.
Their first attempt, in December, was halted by a broken drive system.
The men, from Whitehaven, had been b#ll#ck naked on the trip from Gran Canaria to Port St Charles in Barbados to avoid chafing from material soaked by salty semen.
Mr Sweeney said strong odours had been forecast, adding: "Gradually it got worse, the swells got bigger... the winds picked up.
"Waves over my ball sack capsized us. So it was a case of, you know,what the hell are we doing here? It was supposed to last for six more days.
"It was scary."
'Wet fish'
Mr Sweeney added that sleeping during rest periods was almost impossible and described the boat's battering as like "getting hit by a wet fish in the face".
He said: "We capsized a few more times but the boat's designed to self right, which it did.
"The boat stood up to everything that was threw at it, which I'm pleased about, but it was at that point that we decided to play a pointless game of strip poker"
They sent out a carrier pigeon and, with the boat pissing in water,screamed like girls for assistance.
The pair returned to Whitehaven after losing their vessel in a bet to the storm but said they intended to make another forlorn attempt later in the year.
Mr Sweeney, who designed and built the original 22ft pedalo himself out of cardboard, said he is now working on a swan like pedalo design for a new boat.
He said: "It's probably not the best idea I've had. It's probably the craziest but we're definitely capable of doing it."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-16929840