Sea anchoring // Day 4
Shaun made some real positive progress eastward yesterday and last night. He is sitting on the edge of two eastward moving eddies that will push him further eastward. As at 8am this morning he was 120 nautical miles from Coff’s Harbour and roughly 100 nautical miles off the nearest coast which happens to be Forster, the spot where the Australian kayakers left from in 2008.
Last night he experienced some pretty big seas but slept well. At one stage he woke up and looked out his window only to sea water, so he was unsure whether he had half rolled or was swamped by a wave. This morning he woke to un-rowable conditions but the boat is still in perfect working order. He will have to spend the day in his cabin with the sea anchor deployed, and is thinking about redecorating, sleeping and maybe watching a movie.
Last night Shaun was quite excited to explain that the boats plumbing passed its first ‘test’ however the swells made things rather tricky!
Keep the support coming, he really appreciates hearing about the facebook posts, emails, blogs and tweets.
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Best wishes Quincey from Me, Jane and all of the Sharpe whanau. Thanks for enduring many sleepless nights to send us big waves at Piha!
good luck from the westcoast of the south is nz we have great weather at the moment
Nice work Quincey! Loving the progress you’re making – hopefully the sea improves and your rash doesn’t get ay worse. Keep up your awesome work. Frenchie
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Hey Shaun,
Ace work, great to see your progress on the tracker and to here the plumbing works. It would take ages to get a tradie to come and take a look at your plumbing if it was stuffed. stress less & cheers Maccas
Hey Shauny Pants. Looks like you are making good progress. Checking up on you daily – Bucky is doing a great job with the posts. Hope the movies were good and the weather clears up soon. Em and Mark xx
G’day Shaun,
What an excellent adventure! Best of luck. Great to be able to challenge what Colin did way back then. Technology ‘Twitter’ and tracker systems will us to keep up to date on your progress. Thanks for including us. Expect this blow to pass through and you can get back on the oars. Cheers.
row hard,pain is your friend. See you soon. It all looks good so far!!
Morning Shaun as you say a little bit more than walking to Vauxhall School !! heehee we are following you all the way great progress so far Love the Vivians x
Hey quincey!!!
Watching your progress every day- stoked to hear the sea anchor doing the trick and your well on your way!
I keep telling people to look you up on tt2 so hopefully you’ll get lots of good wishes from this side of the Tasman!!!
Keep up the good work!!
Jules
Hello Quincey, Thinking of you & watching your progress daily. Hope the redecoration of your cabin was satisfactory & you feel comfy & at home??!! Well, it is home for a while so make it nice! Feng Shui???? Hope the movies were good. What do you recommend? Hope tomorrow’s weather enables you to row on down South East. Look after yourself. Take care, The Bucks.
Hey Fella, keep up the good work…. enjoy checking in each night for the progress! Chat soon
Hi Shaun,
Think of you every day nice to see your smiling face..Glad Bucky is looing out for you, sent your site to Nich and Olly, hope you hear from them before yo arrive…Take care..
don’t watch too many moview..Look after yourself…..Mrs S
Hi Shaunie, we are watching you every morning and night and we love your little yellow boat on the map…………..
Great progress, keep safe. Love Jack and Maeve Lockett
graet to see that you are emulating your Dads journey good luck will be following your progress Trevor
Go Kiwi! hi Shaun and Lise. We’re home to Coffs and Shaun, we tried to spot you out of the plane window! Sending you lots of good wishes from this side of the Tasman. take care, love Anna and Mark
greeting Shaun, STREPPO NEWPLYMOUTH
Havie been watchin since ya put the oars in water , Keep up the good work. I was the guy who suggested a propellor driven water maker some time back. I hope that aussie currant dont push ya too far south and ya get a heap of favourable westerlys..we will start clearin the beaches at Nplymouth when ya get closer.
\Regards
Streppo
Hurry up quincey – are you there yet?
Good on you Shawn…give you a thought every morning, as i know what that tasman is like, thou never rowed the buggar.
passed overhead many times, trust the rock & roll dies down, & you can place some more miles between you & Auzz.
all the best …
big Tones
Hope this comment reaches you Shaun but every night when I wake in the night the first thing I think of is you bobbing around out there and both Andrew and I constantly check now how you are going. Hope you remember the home port welcome when the going gets tougher. Well done for working the dream. The
Brown Family
Gidday champ, me and puku just wanna wish you luck. Heard you had some classic big seas last night…epic. Go hard big fulla!
Hi Shaun,
You probably don’t remember me. I’m Brendan’s Mum & managed the TGS boys rowing crew.
I’m sure your dream will come true & we read with interest your progress.