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Stuart Watts, 34, is one quarter of the The Four Oarsmen, who have broken the world record for rowing across the Atlantic.

As part of the Talisker Atlantic Challenge the quad rowed 3,000 miles from the Canary Islands to Antigua in aid of two charities - Mind and Spinal Research. Here, he reveals all from his time at sea:

I'm still slightly in a haze after stepping off our boat in Antigua a week ago having spent 29 days, 14 hours and 34 minutes at sea.

We managed to beat the previous record for rowing across the Atlantic by six days, and I can definitely say it was the hardest yet most incredible month of my life.

For the first two weeks we didn't know we were winning, it was only towards the second half of the race that we were in with a shot.

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We got a couple of texts a day from our weather guy but it was really just the four of us.

All of us were really encouraging towards each other, but everyone deals with it in different ways.

We did two hours rowing then two hours off, when we would eat, rehydrate and try to sleep - if you got an hour's sleep that was the dream, but a snatched 20 minutes was what it mostly was.

We'd been told that we would most likely hallucinate. Pete had one of the worst episodes when he thought I was Will Greenwood, the former England Rugby player.

It lasted two hours - the time he was meant to be rowing - and he was so insistent, he was getting really anxious about it, until he eventually crawled back in the cabin.

We then figured out he hadn't been eating because he'd been using his two hours off to just sleep.

Eating the right thing when you're doing that much exercise is so important. We decided to go low carb and low sugar and concentrate on fats as they are a better source of energy for low pressure exercise.

For snacks we had pork scratchings, macadamia nuts, almonds and coconut flakes.

Our proper meals were dried sachets. They were really simple and actually tasted like home-cooked meals; they were the most natural ones we could find. We often added pure coconut oil, for fat.

All of us are 6ft 4ins tall - I think we were the tallest team - and three of us lost 10kg during the race, while George lost six or seven, but he was only 93kg when we started.

It's funny, when there's four of you alone for that long, you talk about the strangest things, and in so much detail because you have so much time.

George had unbelievable food cravings - mainly for sugary desserts - and would talk for ages about what he would eat when he got in.

He once spoke for 20 minutes about the type of ice cream he wanted, going into depth about which order he would eat flavours in and what kind of toppings.

Something we had to be careful about was chafing; if we wore the wrong clothes then we could get open sores which would really hinder our performance.

All of us ended up rowing naked for a lot of the time - me more than the others - but it was just easier so we didn't rub and chafe.

It also helped air out our nether regions, otherwise we could get the equivalent of trenchfoot.

There were a few scary moments with the weather. One of the worst was when there were 40ft swells, but we just kept rowing.

The Antiguans, the team behind us, are all highly experienced seamen - two are fishermen and one is a professional kitesurfer - and they thought we were going to put our sea anchor down then, but it never occurred to us.

It balances the boat out, but we were completely naive as none of us has even sailed before, so we just kept going, which ultimately helped us win the race.

For the majority of the month it was just us four, but we did see some sealife.

Not long after we left the Canary Islands we were joined by a pod of whales who were really inquisitive and they swam under our boat - it was incredible.

Two days before we got to Antigua we saw another whale and we saw a petrel, a type of bird, but nothing else.

We also saw a big container ship at one point and got quite excited.

One of the bad things was seeing rubbish, there were quite a lot of plastic bottles and drums - not loads, but it's just inexcusable.

The race organisers are really strict about rubbish. We had to count everything in the boat and if a wave took some plastic bottles or packets out we would have to tell them.

The best part of the experience was coming into English Harbour. It was about 10pm and all the superyachts had their lights on and everybody was cheering - it was unbelievable, we weren't expecting that.

A few days before we'd been told we could beat the record so we just rowed our hearts out. What made it easier was knowing we were doing it for two amazing charities, Mind and Spinal Research.

George's mother, Anne, was a patron of Mind and suffered from depression her whole life before she died from her illness in 2011. She was an amazing woman and George always wanted to do something big in her honour.

We chose Spinal Research because Pete was playing rugby in Hong Kong with talented player Ben Kende, who had a terrible accident and sustained a spinal cord injury which has left him as a tetraplegic. My brother also had a spinal injury due to a bad motorcycle accident.

The fact we were rowing for two charities so close to our hearts made us really push.

One of the most emotional parts of the race was when the Antiguans and Swiss Motion came in after us. We were cheering them on from Nelson's Dockyard and it was such a tight race - we were the only ones who understood what they'd been through.

We all cried when they came in because we knew they were completely broken men and to lose by such a small margin was just heartbreaking. They're all fantastic guys.

I've only just been able to walk around properly having not stood for a month, but I'm confident I'll be able to walk, not limp, up the aisle this Sunday when I get married on the beach.

I asked my girlfirend Laura to marry me three weeks before we left and we thought, why not just do it in Antigua?

All my friends and family are coming out.

Antigua won't know what's hit it, with pasty Gloucestershire farmers wondering around - it's going to be amazing!