Hands across the Tasman
NZPA Brisbane The Tasman ruwer, Colin Quincey. sucked appreciatively on a cigarette yesterday and said: “Out in the Tasman I would have given 5000 for a smoke*
Mr Quincey, aged 32, who completed a 65 day voyage from New Zealand on Sunday evening, said that although he missed luxuries such as cigarettes, what he really wanted for was the company of other people on the voyage, which began on February 26. The first people he saw after beaching his six metre boat at Marcus Beach, about 120 miles north of Brisbane, were Mr Keith Murray, aged 25. and his wife Elizabeth. He walked about 400 m from the beach to their
house to announce his arrival about 8.30 p.m. on Sunday.
“I didn’t know quite how to react when this man arrived at our door last night, and said ‘Hello, I’ve just rowed over from New Zealand’,” said Mrs Murray vesterdav morning.
“But Keith believed him, and took him in.”
Mr Quincey was almost constantly on the telephone yesterday morning speaking with people congratulating him on his achievement and with the press.
He is shown posing in the cockpit of his boat on Marcus Beach yesterday.
Mi Murray said that when Mr Quincey arrived he said that his boat was not very well beached, “so some mates and I got a four-wheel-drive vehicle and winched and pushed it
above the high tide mark.” “The boat was in very good shape after the Journey, and is now under guard against curious onlookers. Mr Quincey looks in good condition after his long row. He is sunburnt, and says his legs are stiff. His legs were slightly injured while he was beaching the boat in the surf.
The Tamsan crossing would be his last effort at rowing, he said. “I’m not going to get into anyone’s rowboat from now on.
“Someone suggested I make the return trip. Not on your life; I’m going to quit" while I am on top.” Mr Quincey, a Briton, em/grated to New Zealand to work on the sailing vessel Spirit of Adventure, sailing out of Auckland as a vouth-adventure project.
Hands across the Tasman
Press, 12 April 1977, Page 2
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