Category: Rowing Home

On the 30th August, 2018, I set-off from the port of Eden in South-East Australia, in a solo attempt to row across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand and finish the Rowing from Home to Home expedition. Rowing from Home to Home is a journey I am attempting to make from Singapore to New Zealand…

For the final stage of the Tasman crossing I have teamed up with the talented French Stallion Mr Ludovic Tendron to support an issue affecting every human being.  The tragedy of single use disposable plastic poisoning our oceans. Ludovic has designed this very cool expedition tee-shirt which carries a strong message on the front: “In…

I will very shortly be continuing the ‘Rowing from Home’ to Home journey. Back on my bicycle I will head south from the town of Ballina where I landed in the boat last year, in search of a new launching spot.  I can’t wait to be out and about again, and its a great opportunity…

As I prepare for round two of the Tasman Sea crossing I am spending my time revamping my complete speaking business. I am very excited to release this to you all within the next two weeks. January has been a wonderful month for speaking with five events and a brand new series of keynotes and…

One of the most important techniques I use after a ‘failure’ is to sit down and write down what I would do differently. It’s important to do this as timely as possible while its still fresh in my mind.  I find the process both cathartic, insightful and most importantly a great tool for DECISION MAKING.…

Hello all, Now I am off the water, I am open for bookings again for keynote speaking events! For your conference’s, customer appreciation evenings, seminars, workshops, after dinner, schools, team building, you name it, if you are looking for a fresh, recent, relevant, real and inspiring story told by a professional speaker then please get…

Yesterday (Saturday 11 November) around 1400hrs I switched off the GPS tracker and stepped ashore at the small port of Ballina in Northern New South Wales.  24 days and 1,100nm after departing Coff’s Harbour. The last 6nm I was grateful to receive a tow in from the Ballina Marine Rescue team.  Ballina port has a…

AIS gone down right when I needed it to cross shipping lane. No sleep then this eve, on watch all night.Tomorrow hope to be very close to land for tow in.

Currently 48nm to shore. 90nm to Coffs Harbour & searching for South current. Crew happy, rowing since 0600, tea N hash brown for bfast. looking forward to a beer. https://inreach.garmin.com/textmessage/viewmsg?mo=d75a7b930f9d47b488faf311c8a224390  

Operation SAVE THE DONKEY ongoing. Now 90nm from shore. Strong currents & shipping lanes coming. Can we make it? I don’t know. Next 48hrs critical. Tired. RYBR https://inreach.garmin.com/textmessage/viewmsg?mo=e4a1b65bf6304489b721391aea3311580  

For those of you who missed it yesterday- here’s Axe’s interview with Radiosport’s D’Arcy Waldergrave from out in the Tasman about what it’s like out there and why he’s decided to turn back to Australia. Listen here!

At last underway. Dolphins and a bird on deck saw me off this morning at 0600hrs. Making 3kn w/tailwind and favorable current towards Aus. Rowed 7hrs, 2 to go. https://inreach.garmin.com/textmessage/viewmsg?mo=f5289792fdf44bcb8f9e5d12872d84cf0

For the very latest on Axe and where he’s at (and for those of you missing his mellifluous tones) he did an interview via satellite phone this morning with D’Arcy Waldergrave of www.radiosport.co.nz in New Zealand and it will be broadcast this evening after 6pm NZ time – if you’re tuning in from overseas, go to http://www.radiosport.co.nz/on-demand/listen-from-overseas/ and you…

Coffee, a pack of gingernuts and ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ ticked of today. Crew in good spirits however murmurs of uprising if SE winds do not appear 2moro. https://inreach.garmin.com/textmessage/viewmsg?mo=59d764bc7d874548a2a4219f43d3fe430

Rough night,lightning,strong winds,airborne inside cabin! Little sleep. Another day on p.anchor 2day. Tomorrow hope to start moving west. https://inreach.garmin.com/textmessage/viewmsg?mo=b3dc9baa1bcf40ca9e6be3bd99cda75b0  

Good progress yesterday. Wind changed and dropped the p.anchor at midnight. 30 knots northerly coming tonight – will be p.anchor through to Tuesday lunchtime.

Over the past few days a few things have happened to Axe which he was posting directly about on Facebook but those posts were not going onto the blog- so to get us back up to speed- here’s those posts Axe’s blog readers have been missing out on with some big news at the end……

Day 14 – being smashed by 35-40knots of weather. Capsized at 2130hrs last night. Para anchor broken, main sat comms unit out, it’s not nice here at present. Axe https://inreach.garmin.com/textmessage/viewmsg?mo=557ba786ca554940aedea41f5ac36d7b0