Become a member of the OAR Land Crew
For those individuals wishing to make a contribution to the OAR Project, we offer the opportunity to become a part of the OAR Land Crew. For donations over £250 or $400, your name will be printed on the ocean rowing boat Bojangles, allowing it to travel to the start of the Olympics, and you’ll be listed as a sponsor here on the OAR website. Land Crew members will also receive priority updates with all the latest news, an OAR T-shirt and a USB with lots more information about the OAR Project.
To become a member of the OAR Land Crew, simply click here to make a donation. Don’t forget to add special instructions so we know who you are! Please include your name and email address.
Sponsor an item
Many people prefer to buy a specific item for the OAR team. With so many pieces of kit and equipment required for a challenge of this magnitude, you could choose to help by paying for or donating a particular item – from food to electronics, airtime to toilet roll, baby wipes to oars, every little bit helps!
If you would like to sponsor an item of kit, simply chose something from the list below, then click here to make a donation. Don’t forget to add special instructions so we know who you are! Please include your name, email address and which items of kit you wish to sponsor. Where an item is worth over £250 or $400, we’ll automatically make you a member of the OAR Land Crew too.
Item
Cost
Sponsor
Boat
Boat refurbishment – as a ‘living exhibit in the San Francisco Maritime Museum £15,000 Paint and antifoul £2,500 Shipping from San Francisco to St John’s £6,500 DHL Onboard
Ensign and courtesy flags £150 Jimmy Green Marine Life raft £1000 Windslow Liferafts Sea Anchor £500 Drogues £200 Water ballast £120 Mooring lines £100 Oars £2,400 Xcell Gates and spares £50 Seats and spare wheels £30 Seat padding and sheepskin £200 Easirider Tool kit £250 Dry bags £400 Overboard Food & water
Desalination machine (water maker) £4,000 Spectra Watermakers Handheld water maker £899 Feed Us For A Day! Buy a days rations for Andrew and Roz £70 per day Food for 60 days @ 6,000 calories per person per day £1,328 Fuizion FDF, Mountain House Snacks and treats for 60 days £2,896 Larabars Electrolyte powder £183 Cooker and spares £162 Cooking gas £108 Cooking equipment and utensils £75 Emergency fishing kit £8.95 Fire blanket £15.99 Fire extinguisher £17.99 Sleeping
Sleeping bags £216 Ocean Sleepwear Sleeping mats – inflatable & made to measure £500 HMC West Hygiene
Solar shower £7.50 Toiletries £18 Cleaning wipes £42.5 Toilet rolls (antibacterial) £31.50 Handwash gel £10.49 Milton sterilizing fluid £2.89 Sores/rubs kit – Sudocrem £10 Sun block and lotion Tbc Forever Living Products Towels £25 Dry bags £227 Overboard Sea sickness remedy tbc First Aid kit £300 Clothing
Survival suits £1,990 Base layers – top £160 Crewroom Base layers – bottom £76 Crewroom Mid layers £180 Offshore jacket £1,140 ExplorOceans Offshore trousers £820 ExplorOceans Sun hats £60 Sunglasses £159.80 Mittens – 1 pair each £26 Gloves – 2 pairs each £52 Azure Lifejackest & harness £249.98 Lifelines £89.98 Spare gas for lifejackets £67.96 Communications, Safety & Technology
Laptop £2,819.99 Satellite telephone £200 Angela Hey and John Mashey Yellowbrick tracking device £900 Weather Underground Navigational Charts and Weather Routeing Charts £350 Thomas Gunn NavigationalServices On shore weather support £2,000 EPIRBs x 2 £739.90 McMurdo Personal EPIRBs x 2 £439.90 McMurdo SeaMe radar reflector £834 Handheld VHF DSC radio £244.95 Raymarine VHF DSC radio (fixed) £274.99 Raymarine Signalling mirror £11.95 Flares £250 Fog horn and spare canister £13.98 Waterproof camera £219.99 Waterproof video camera £340.16 Specialist underwater camera & lens £10,000 Memory cards £7.40 Airtime – to send blogs, film and photos £10,000 Waterproof speakers £125 Aleksey Bochkovsky iPod x 2 £398