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| Meet my heroes | | Print | |
| Thursday, 31 July 2008 | ||||
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There's a reason I've written a few posts about James Castrission and Justin Jones over the past few months and the simplest way for me to state it is that they are my personal heroes. I'm in awe of these guys and what they managed to accomplish (paddling over 3000km across the Tasman sea from the east coast of Australia to the west coast of New Zealand). Today I got to meet them and I have to admit feeling a bit like a newby white belt martial artist meeting Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. James was busy fielding questions for the many other curious onlookers while I was hanging around but I did get to corner Justin, shake his hand (I think he was a little embarrissed when I told him that they were my heroes) and ask him a bunch of questions about their incredible voyage. He really was very friendly and was more than happy to answer anything I had to ask. I think I'll try to arrange to do a proper interview with them, because what Justin did have to say was really very interesting. Attending the Sydney boat show was worthwhile going just to get a chance to chat to them.  James Castrission and Justin Jones: chicks dig em Equally as interesting was getting a close up look at the kayak they built for the trip. I was surprised at how big the kayak is and astounded to learn that fully loaded with all their gear, it actually weighed 1 tonne. Yes, a whole tonne - that's not a misprint. They paddled this monstrosity (Justin seemed amused at my description of it) for about 3300km over the course of 62 days. Wow. Just, wow!  The 1 tonne monstrosity  Cockpit. Too cosy for my tastes, but clearly it did the job     
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