Nick Hancock (GB) is planning on spending 60 days on Rockall. He is aiming for the longest solo occupation of the rock and the longest occupation outright. His attempt also aims to raise money for the UK charity ‘Help for Heroes’.

Nick has been plugging away at this project for some time, slowly and steadily making it a reality. Sponsors have been slow to materialise but he has had some good news along the way. His most recent milestone is the completion of his ‘RockPod’, the custom designed and manufactured structure that he will call home while on Rockall.

Nick Hancock's 'RockPod'

Nick’s website is at rockallsolo.com. He’s also active on twitter and facebook. He is still in need of funding to complete his project target, so if you have a few quid spare, all the better. He also points out that there’s still lots of room for sponsor logos on the RockPod!

Yes, ’tis true. A company called Maniera are selling a range of very nautical-looking wellies under the Rockall name. We’re trying to figure out how we can get our hands on some to see how they cope with life at sea! Meanwhile, you can read all about ’em here. Sadly, they appear to be only available in the USA, but we have reached out to Maniera’s North American publicist to see if we can contact the firm directly.

We’ve been mentioned on the Afloat (Irish watersports magazine) website here. The piece refers to an announcement by Galway Bay Sailing Club. Thanks Afloat – we’re super-confused! Early followers of the Round Rockall Race will remember that Afloat were responsible for launching us in June 2010, see our blog entries here, here and here. (Unfortunately the people at Afloat seem to have deleted the old post and podcast, so the links don’t work).

Update: An eagle-eyed blog follower has sent us a working link to the original piece on the Afloat website in June 2010 – many thanks Sir.