who we are
A trio of brothers, challenging the seas.
We are a team of three brothers from Edinburgh who combine our passions with purpose to have a positive impact on the world.
miles rowed
13,000+
Happy sponsors
30+
Charity fundraising
£1.4m+
World Records
6
what we're about
three brothers
We're Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean, three brothers from Edinburgh. In 2020, having never rowed seriously before, we rowed the Atlantic, broke three world records and raised over £200,000 for charity. That crossing showed us what a hard physical challenge with a purpose could do, and in 2023 we set up The Maclean Foundation.
In 2025 we rowed the full Pacific, from Peru to Australia, non-stop and unsupported: 139 days and 9,753 miles, a world first. Along the way we raised over £1 million for clean water projects in Madagascar through The Maclean Foundation and our partner charity, Feedback Madagascar. Three Brothers in a Boat, published by Canongate in September 2026, is the story of how.
charity efforts
The Maclean Foundation
We set up The Maclean Foundation in 2023 with a focus on clean water.
Clean water is the most basic human necessity on the planet, yet 10% of people worldwide don't have access to it.
The impact from our Pacific row is being delivered through our trusted partner charity, Feedback Madagascar (SC023568). Our focus is cantilever and gravity fed borehole systems in communities living on the edges of the south-east rainforest corridor.
£1m will bring change not just at community level; it will bring structural change to this entire region. Only around one in ten people in rural Madagascar has safely managed drinking water (WHO/UNICEF, 2024). We're doing something to change that.
This row is one part of the full story. Get Three Brothers in a Boat to read the whole adventure, cover to cover.