Category: Rowing Home
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Kiwi legend Rob Hamill to join the Rowing from Home to Home expedition!
I am am very happy to announce that Rob Hamill from New Zealand will join the Rowing from Home to Home team! Rob is a well known kiwi, having represented New Zealand in the Olympics and world championships for rowing, but perhaps most well recognised for winning the first ever trans-Atlantic rowing race in 1997,…
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Rowing from Home to Home – Episode 4 – have we done enough?
It is with great pleasure we release episode four of the Rowing from Home to Home video diaries. This personally is my favorite episode to date as it covers some real action from our training row in Indonesia and our successful crossing of the shipping lanes which I am really quite proud of as it…
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Leaving Party – Saturday 17 December!
We are leaving! That’s right, the Rowing from Home to Home expedition is all set to depart Singapore’s sunny shores. As such we will be hosting a leaving party this Saturday evening, 1900hrs (thats 7PM) on wards, there is even free beer for the early birds! A massive thank you to the Trenchard Arms on…
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Our first storm! Episode 3 – Rowing from Home to Home video diary..
Hi folks! Check out what happens when we encountered our first storm in our recent training row to Indonesia… Enjoy!
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Episode 2 – Rowing from Home to home video diary
Enjoy Eposide 2 of the Rowing from Home to Home video diaries. In this episode we get to know expedition team mate Charlie Smith better, and take a look at the detail of the preparations we are going through. Thanks to Keppel Bay Sailing Academy and Marina at Keppel Bay, Raffles Marina and Daniel Lundbery…
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Six day rowing expedition to Indonesia – training trip report
I have missed the process of writing during these past few busy months so it is nice to sit down and type our this trip report. This is an overview of our recent 6 day training expedition to Indonesia. I had three goals for this training expedition: Get away from Singapore, and as far out to…
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Episode One – Open Day for the expedition
Hello folks! Yesterday Charlie Smith and I returned safely to Raffles Marina in Simpson’s Donkey after a six day training row to Indonesia. We tested our systems, got smashed by two storms, ran aground, got very sun burnt, battled headwinds and strong tidal currents, dodged oil tankers and cargo vessels and learnt more in six days…
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Interview with team mate Charlie Smith
In this interview we get the privilege to know ‘Rowing from Home to Home’ team mate Charlie ‘Prince Charles’ Smith better. Charlie will be crew mate on the first leg – the never before attempted, 4500km rowing journey, completely by human power, from Singapore to Darwin. Charlie discusses all sorts of issues, from his life…
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Rowing from Home to Home open day! 8 October 2016
Do come and join us on the 8th October at the beautiful Raffles Marina venue in Singapore for the Rowing from Home to Home open day from 4 – 6PM. See the boat, meet the team and hear the story about the expedition! I will be giving a 30 minute presentation on the expedition, followed…
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Expedition trailer is out!
Hello there! Very excited to release to you the official expedition trailer/teaser – a 2.5 minute short film about the Rowing from Home to Home expedition, put together so very professionally by kiwi film producer Mr Alistair Harding. A big thank you to Mr Jingyi Tan for the drone footage, and to Charlie Smith, Stephanie…
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105km in 31 hours – Training row #2
We departed this previous Thursday evening at 5:30 PM with a plan to make a complete, self-supported circumnavigation of Singapore by human power (using Simpson’s Donkey rowing boat). Well, as complete as you can, because you see, in reality it is impossible to row around the Singapore mainland. Why? Because someone built a bloody big…
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Rowing the worlds second busiest port – lessons from the first training expedition
Ocean Rowing boats are designed to cross oceans. Massive expanses of endless blue water. Day after day, week after week, month after month without seeing land. Thousands of metres of water below your keel. If you are lucky, you may on the odd occasion see a vessel, but far away in the distance. Your food, your…
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Why do we have Monsoons in Asia?
For the first 21 years of my life I lived in New Zealand, where the most common question to ask someone up on meeting is “what do you think of the weather?”. In New Zealand the weather seems to dictate our daily lives, our actions, our moods and our conversations. Maybe one of the reasons for…
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Every boat needs a name: Welcome to the world Simpson’s Donkey!
As the title of this post suggests, every boat needs a name. Following along from my trusty inflatable kayak which is named ‘The Divorce Machine’ (given by kiwi buddy Blair Spendelow), there were rumors and suggestions abounding that the rowing boat would be suitably named ‘The Divorce Machine 2’. This was not to be and…
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New Team member Charlie Smith!
There has been an intense last few weeks in the Rowing from Home to Home camp, and some big progress has been made. See the updates in brief below: Firstly I would like to make a huge welcome to Charlie Smith who is joining the team as the second rower and crew mate for the journey…
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5 ways to raise money for your expeditions if you cannot find sponsorship
I receive many requests from people for advice on how to raise sponsorship to support the cost of their expeditions or adventures (In fact I get so many requests I wrote this article giving 10 practical tips on how to do it yourself). I also frequently hear from a number of people who cannot embark…
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5 lessons Rowing Home taught me in 2015
One of the great things about taking on huge projects is that you learn so much, about so many things as you journey through the process. It’s impossible to get everything right the first time, hindsight is a powerful tool and often wisdom is gained through experience and sometimes making bad decisions. These are the 5 key lessons Rowing…
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Rowing Home training in full swing
Merry December to all! Rowing Home training has been in full swing for two months now. One of the main things I have realised early on is the importance of learning how to row! Having spent lots of time on the water facing forward and paddling a sea-kayak, I have found it a very different…
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Rowing Home gets two new team members!
Yesterday was an exciting day for ROWING HOME with two new members joining the team. Rachel Jacklin Rawlinson and Kate Ngaire Rawlinson arrived one minute apart, twin sisters who came into this brightly lit, confusing world, very startled, with small whails and sporting more hair than their father. (Middle names chosen after the names of their grandparents –…
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New expedition launch: Rowing Home – Singapore to New Zealand by human power
Things have been a little quiet on the major expedition front for the past one year here at axeoneverest.com, but there is a very good reason for that. I have quietly been plotting away my most ambitious project yet. A human powered journey from Singapore to New Zealand, some 12,000km in length. The expedition is…
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