Scottish rowing brothers aim for record-breaking Pacific crossing

Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan MacLean set off in a carbon fiber dinghy from Lima, aiming to reach Sydney in Australia 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometres) away in about four months. The trio from Edinburgh, who previously rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, are hoping to raise more than $1 million for clean water projects in Madagascar in the process. "We're going to be rowing non-stop with no outside support, so we'll be on our own," Lachlan MacLean told AFP before boarding. They departed shortly after 4:00...