By Samantha Lock

Three Scottish brothers have set a new record for rowing nonstop across the world’s largest ocean, arriving in Australia to the tune of bagpipes after 140 days at sea.

Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean covered more than 14,000 kilometres from Peru to Cairns where they became the first team to finish the full crossing just before midday on Saturday.

Violent storms, including one that swept a brother overboard, forced them to make detours and nixed plans for a Friday arrival in a quest that has raised more than $1.6 million.

The money will fund projects that provide clean water to people living in Madagascar through the brothers’ charity – the Maclean Foundation.

The brothers aim to provide clean water for 40,000 people, declaring it the “most basic of needs” and too often taken for granted.

Supporters of the trio include movie stars Ewan McGregor and Mark Wahlberg and Flea from the band Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The brothers have also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from sponsorships with renowned whisky distilleries such as Rare Whisky 101 and Talisker, paying tribute to their father’s background as a whisky expert.

Emotional scenes played out as they rowed into the Cairns Marlin Marina playing the bagpipes and waving the Scottish, Australian and UK flags.

The trio was embraced by more than 50 friends and family from the UK – including their mother Sheila – as they set foot on the pier.

In the hours before their arrival, Mark uploaded a video calling the marina ahead of their approach.

“Do you have pizza and beer? I repeat, do you have pizza and beer? Over.”

“Since April 12th, our lives have been on this boat,” he captioned the post.

“All we’ve known is constant rowing, only breaking for a broken sleep in a cramped cabin, a daily emptying of our thoughts into our ship’s log and to eat, clean and fix broken things.

“Tomorrow, our bodies will limp on to shore, and the pain will wash away as we are hugged by our friends and family in Cairns.

“We’re going to try and enjoy these last few hours.

“We will miss life at sea, but we can’t bloody wait.”

Ewan described the journey as the hardest thing he has ever done and one he could not have contemplated without his siblings.

“We’ve shed tears of joy and laughed till our cheeks hurt,” he said.

“And at times we’ve cried with sadness and with fear, but our spirits have been lifted, time and time again, by the support of so many rallying behind us.”

The previous record for the fastest full, unassisted, nonstop Pacific row was 162 days, set by Russian solo rower Fyodor Konyukhov in 2014.

The Maclean brothers previously broke world records when they rowed from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua in 35 days.