Fourbirdsaboating are a team of four teachers from the UK and South Africa, who met whilst teaching in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. During that time, the children they met, started an environmental education and English language club called 'Oceans Project Georgia' (OPG). This has grown extensively, to become a registered charity in Georgia, with Patrons including ocean rower Roz Savage, BBC Oceans Presenter Paul Rose, and Sir Rannulph Fiennes's expedition medic Dr Alexander Kumar from the European Space Agency. OPG's goal is two fold, 1) to bring the outside world and new friends in to the young people of Georgia, and 2) to raise money to provide tablet computers and free, online environmental education, to young people all over the world, many of whom have little or no access to any form of education.

During the OPG project sessions, the children (Oceans Ambassadors) on OPG followed Roz Savage as she rowed across the Pacific Ocean, and that was how the idea for the Project Leaders to row across an ocean came about. None of the fourbirdsaboating team had ever rowed before, so it was always going to be a huge task, especially when combined with teaching live from the ocean over 8 months from a 23 foot boat, visiting schools en route, and making 3D film footage.

Luckily for the team, they have received a huge amount of support in their respective homelands, including support from Leander Club Captain and Olympic Rower Debbie Flood in Sarah's home town of Henley On Thames, where she also trains at Urban Fitness gym, and Purestretch studio. Because the team are training separately until they meet again in September 2013, each is training individually, and they have set themselves the challenge of covering the equivalent of their 7200 nautical mile ocean row, before they even reach the start line in May 2014. The Pacific Row will begin in Monterey Bay, California, rowing to Hawaii as part of the first ever Pacific Ocean Rowing race (organised by New Ocean Wave), and from there the team will continue to Cairns, Australia, unsupported. The row is raising funds for three charities: Oceans Project Georgia, Thai Children's Trust, and First Step Georgia who work with young Georgians who have a disability.

The team have set up the challenge to train on the concept2 in their respective countries, rowing the equivalent of 11584800metres before May 2014, and hope that others will join them on their mission. You can follow their progress on their blog or visit Oceans Project Georgia on Facebook, or the fourbirdsaboating team on Facebook