Sponsor Profile // ORCON
Orcon is one awesome provider of broadband and phone services to homes and businesses around New Zealand, and also one of the biggest financial backers of Shaun’s effort to cross the Tasman. In fact Orcon is Shaun’s Silver Sponsor.
Reliable communication with Shaun as he has been undertaking this massive adventure has been vital to not only the success of the campaign, but also Shaun’s safety. Orcon has provided one of their great broadband and phone packages at Shaun’s base here in NZ to ensure that the crew on the ground here is able to be in contact with Shaun and track his progress.
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Adding to my bookmarks cheers, a good fast read.
Adding to my bookmarks cheers, needed some more images though.
Yikes this definitely takes me back, where are your contact details hmm?
I liked seeing this, do you have a RSS feed I can use?
A topic close to my heart thanks. Needed more pictures though.
Hi Shaun. Great effort and almost there but old Neptune ain’t done with you yet. If the wind, wave and swell prognoses for the next week come to pass, it looks like you will either be surfing ashore in a 5m sea on The Ninety Mile (good luck!) or hammering around the cape for an east coast landing. Some choice, eh! Either way it’s all rather bad luck after coming so far. How good is your sea anchor? If it can hold you off the coast with minimal drift for the next 4 days, then a landing window with lighter winds is expected on Monday although continuing 4 m seas will preclude a beach landing. If the anchor is not so good then 4 days of 20 kt southerlies plus 4 m SW seas plus usual N setting current on that coast will surely carry you N to the capes. Perhaps you might slide around them close in and into the lee of Spirits Bay but in that event you will have to contend with the tidal rips. I do not envy your choices but hold your nerve, go with the flow, proceed with care and don’t take risks – especially with no spare oar, be patience and stand off if you can until conditions are favourable for landing eg later next week. Our best wishes and constant thoughts go with you during this trying final leg.
Go Shaun, doing awesome. Hope you site the land of the long white cloud very very soon. Aussie YO YO YO! Jeff
Wow- 4knots. Your surfing man.
Maybe we’ll see you 90 mile beach. Plenty of room for a good welcoming party there.
Just dont do like your dad n collect the Pandora Bank.
Good luck Quince.
Hey Shaun,
You are going great guns man. Keep it up! I have been plotting your course on Google Earth by copying your GPS co-ordinates from Live Map and pasting into Google Earth.
Stay strong and stay safe mate. Pavlo, Australia
We have so many people to be grateful to for keeping Shaun safe, afloat, and in-touch. Thank you Orcon for your sponsorship and vital on-going support, both of which are so much appreciated by everybody behind this venture.
Great to hear your voice on radio interview this morning – you sound so positive! Keep up the hard work! I’m sure you will be the talk of the Surf Life Saving Nationals this weekend.
cheers and all the best from all the Kents
Orcon Team, Thanks for supporting Shaun in this adventure. Without communications we would not have known of his shortage of water and he would have been helicoptered off and having to abandon the last part of the voyage. Your corporate sponsorship is appreciated by me and I am sure the public as well. John Funnell