Two brothers who set a world record by travelling to Bermuda on a flatboat have now crossed the Atlantic in the same style boat.

Ralph Brown, 50, and Robert Brown, 52, set out from Tampa, Florida, in the 21ft boat on June 27. They travelled north to Canada, before turning east, passing Greenland, Iceland, England and France before arriving in Germany on September 10.

The 76-day trip took the brothers 8,312 miles.

In 2007, the pair made a 774-mile trip between St. George's and New York to promote Ralph Brown's business, Dream Boats, and the boat which the younger brother had designed, the Intruder 21. The elder brother wrote a book about the experience called 'Bermuda Suicide Challenge'.

The latest journey had a more sombre reason to honour three of Ralph Brown's Marine Corp Comrades who died during a 1980 rescue mission in Iran.

While Ralph Brown called the Intruder unsinkable, he advised others against trying to cross the Atlantic in the boat.