Shaun Quincey battled a distance of 4,000 kilometres, with ten metre swells, across one of the most treacherous seas in the world to complete a journey that took him fifty-four days, becoming the first man to row the Tasman from west to east. He will tell the story of his epic journey in full in the book, tentatively named Tasman Trespasser II: The Shaun Quincey Story. During the journey, he lost seventeen kilograms; went backwards for twenty-two days; rowed nude (over-rated according to Shaun) and encountered over-sized wildlife en route.
Quincey is only the second man to row the Tasman Sea solo — the first was his father, who completed the Tasman crossing east to west in 1977 in 63 days.
On the day he made landfall on New Zealand’s Ninety Mile Beach in March this year, Quincey’s website received over one and a half million hits.
Tasman Trespasser II by Shaun Quincey, is the ultimate story of adventure, self-belief, discipline and courage, says Bill Honeybone, Publishing Consultant for HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand. The book will published in November this year, coinciding with a nationwide tour of school visits and media interviews.
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