Major Mick finishes ‘Tintanic’ row

AN 80-year-old retired Army major has raised more than £30,000 as he completes his challenge to row 100 miles in his homemade boat, the “Tintanic”.

“Major Mick” Michael Stanley, who served in The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards for 35 years, was welcomed at Chichester Basin by his 10-year-old grandson Toby Liddiard with a rendition of Drunken Sailor on the trumpet.

During the challenge, which Mr

Stanley has been carrying out at a speed of 2mph twice a week for three months, the veteran celebrated his 80th birthday and his 50th wedding anniversary.

He told the PA news agency: “I am very pleased to have done it but I shall miss the chitchat, the laughter and the banter I have had with the people on the towpath.

“But I won’t be so sorry to miss the weather which has been a bit wet and cold.”

Andrew Matthews Michael Stanley, aka ‘Major Mick’, completes his 70 mile row in Tintanic