Trans-Tasman rower Shaun Quincey is enjoying some deserved home comforts after completing his epic 54 day journey from Australia and New Zealand.
The 25-year-old reached dry land at Ninety Mile Beach yesterday and was greeted by over 100 family, friends and media.
Quincey's 7 metre boat was battered by the high winds and seas - he twice capsized, broke two oars and was blown far north of his intended landing place in Taranaki.
But the adventurer told RadioLIVE’s Marcus Lush, despite the hardship, his friends and family kept him going.
I got the satellite phone bill today. I’d made a lot of calls! I think it was $6000 – but it kept me sane, so I was happy with that,” he said.
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Quincey is only the second person to row the Tasman sea - after his father Colin did it in 1977.
Colin Quincey says his experience of landing in Queensland could not have been more different than his son’s in the Far North.
“I first landed in the middle of the night in Noosa and there was no one there at all. It took me about an hour and a half to find anybody. So slightly different,” he says.
Colin Quincy says he spoke with his son every five days and the bad weather and high winds he encountered at sea were similar to those he tackled 30 years ago.
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