By Jerram Watts
New Zealand adventurer Shaun Quincey may be putting his rowboat on display at a museum but isn’t ruling out another epic voyage.
Earlier this year Quincey rowed his Tasman Trespasser 2 boat across the Tasman; an exhausting 54-day journey in which he battled the elements and animals.
Today, his 1km row from Westhaven Marine to the Maritime Museum at the bottom of Albert St couldn’t have been a starker contrast.
“Throw in a couple of 15 metre waves, a whale, a capsize and a few other things,” he told 3 News this morning.
While Quincey says handing over his 7.3m boat will be “a little bit sad”, he is happy the vessel is going somewhere safe and respectable.
He also says future plans for another voyage are on the horizon.
“It will be time to move on to the next challenge I think; that will be the end of the adventure and certainly time to move on,” he says.
“I’ve got a few things ticking away in the background, but I think with a bit of time off I’ll be able to make a decision about that.”
Those plans include a 4000 nautical mile row across the Indian Ocean or a 3000 nautical mile row across the Atlantic.
The 25-year-old handed over his boat after it was bought by the Rotorua-based First Sovereign Trust for $36,000 and donated to the museum.
Quincey says the sale price “almost” clears his debts.
Quincey's boat will eventually sit in the museum alongside Tasman Trespasser, the boat his father Colin Quincey spent 63 days in when he rowed across the Tasman from New Zealand to Australia in 1977.
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