July 22, 2025

Adventurers at Sea: The Record-Breaking Journey of the Maclean Brothers Pt. 2| Just Wondering with Norm Hitzges

🚣 Just Wondering: Rowing Through Storms, Pirates & Poop Buckets – The McLean Brothers Return! (Part 2) Back by salty demand! In this Just Wondering follow-up episode, Norm Hitzges reconnects with everyone's favorite Scottish sea warriors—the McLean Brothers—as they continue their 9,000-mile rowing odyssey from Lima, Peru to Sydney, Australia. Still afloat (barely), still hilarious (always), and still rowing for a million-pound mission to provide clean water in Madagascar. In Part 2, things get even wilder:We’re talking freeze-dried feasts, rogue waves, whales, fishing mishaps (what do you do with 40 kilos of fish?), and the high-tech savior of the sea—the Starlink Mini. Jamie, Lachlan, and Ewan open up about near-death experiences, maritime mysteries, sibling chaos, and… yes, the harsh realities of the bucket toilet.

Show Notes

🚣 Just Wondering: Rowing Through Storms, Pirates & 💩 Buckets – The McLean Brothers Return! (Part 2)

Back by salty demand! In this Just Wondering follow-up episode, Norm Hitzges reconnects with everyone's favorite Scottish sea warriors—the McLean Brothers—as they continue their 9,000-mile rowing odyssey from Lima, Peru to Sydney, Australia. Still afloat (barely), still hilarious (always), and still rowing for a million-pound mission to provide clean water in Madagascar.

In Part 2, things get even wilder:

We’re talking freeze-dried feasts, rogue waves, whales, fishing mishaps (what do you do with 40 kilos of fish?), and the high-tech savior of the sea—the Starlink Mini. Jamie, Lachlan, and Ewan open up about near-death experiences, maritime mysteries, sibling chaos, and… yes, the harsh realities of the bucket toilet.

🌊 Come for the adrenaline, stay for the brotherly banter and heroic cause. This is human-powered storytelling at its finest.

🧭 CHAPTERS

0:00 – A rowing record and a touching family tribute

4:07 – Surviving on freeze-dried food & massive fish hauls

8:27 – Life with a bucket toilet: brutal honesty at sea

10:15 – Starlink Mini: Keeping connected mid-ocean

11:36 – Ocean dangers: Pirates, whales & navigating the unknown

17:00 – Magical midnight rowing shifts and mental toughness

18:51 – Rogue waves, storms & a brother goes overboard

23:50 – Clean water mission & how the crew holds it together

26:50 – A rowing journey meets Dallas sports talk legends

💧 Join the Cause

Help the McLean brothers hit their goal and bring clean water to Madagascar:

👉 https://themacleanbrothers.com

It only takes £30 / $50 to give someone clean water for life. You in?

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