Former firefighter to row 5,500 miles across Indian Ocean for dementia charity

Billy Taylor and his crew members will attempt to row 5,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to raise £500,000 for charity (Billy Taylor) - (Billy Taylor)

An ocean-rowing event manager is to row 5,500 miles across the Indian Ocean within 100 days to remember his friend who died after living with early onset Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD).

Billy Taylor, 52, from Selsey in West Sussex, will row from Exmouth, Western Australia to Mombasa in Kenya in early June – and he will be joined by three other crew members on a 29ft by 5ft carbon fibre boat.