Sydney International Boat Show 2010

Hanging at the Boat Show with RTW sailors Mike Perham and of course Jess Watson.

This year we were representing NSW Maritime as Safe Boating Ambassadors which was a blast and a pretty big honour. Along-side Andrew Ettingshausen (ET) and Pete Goss (British maritime legend) Jonesy and I are out there promoting safe boating on our waterways. At the Boat show we were fitting the little tackers out with lifejackets and spreading the safe word!

If you'd like to find our more, check out: www.boatforlife.com.au

Apart from that we were also pumped to be MCs for the better boating lounge (don't worry Tim Stackpool...i think you're pretty safe in your role) and got to meet some pretty rad people including Mike Perham (RTW sailor- second youngest now), the Fat Paddler aka Sean Smith (who has an AWESOME blog) and the La Barca Family - sailed around the world with 2 young kids over 4.5years. Good friends Jess Watson and Don McIntyre (fresh from his mutiny on the Bounty recreation) were also to be seen floating about the place...

Training for our NEXT BIG EXPEDITION has started!

Jonesy showing how useless he is at skiing (you can tell it's Oz but the snow cover, of lack of!!)

Winter summit of Kosciousko on skis! Boy-o-boy.... have we got a long way to go! We can't reveal exactly what we're doing yet...but trust us... for the 100 year anniversary of Scott and Amundsen reaching the South Pole we've got something HUGE planned. Stay tuned for details soon...

Channel 7 to show the Doco and NEW DVD!!

The Crossing the Ditch doco has just been picked up by Channel Seven and Seven Two. It's slated to be aired at:

- Channel 7 :           Sunday August 8th @ 10am across Oz except Perth (early I know...) &

- Channel 7 Two :    Sunday August 29th @ 4pm across Oz

So pencil those dates in your diaries and tell us what you think!

I'm glad that it's finally on a network and happy that Seven have picked it up...my only tiny little gripe is that we had to cut it down to a 44minute cut. It's quite hard to condense 3.5years of preparation, planning and paddling into such a sort timeframe...which brings me on to my next point!

There is a new version of the DVD out for sale!!!

As you probably picked up from the new DVD cover to the left, the Crossing the Ditch DVD has just had a dramatic make-over. We've partnered up with DV1 (http://www.dv1.com.au/) to create a new doco with tonnes of juicy features including:

 - A new 70 minute Cut

 - 45 minutes of extras including video diaries, deleted scenes, podcasts, pictures and of course the answer to the most asked question we ever get: How did we go the bathroom!! (It is an absolute must watch...see James squeal like a little schoolgirl!)

 To pick up a copy you have three options:

1) Go to any good DVD store ie JB Hi Fi, EzyDVD, ABC Shops

2) Purchase online from DV1 through the Ovation Store CLICK HERE

or preferably...

3) Get your signed copy direct from us!! All our proceeds are going towards our next expedition. CLICK HERE

WILD Feature

Check out the May/ June Cover of WILD Magazine. James wrote a gripping story of his time up on Mt McKinley last year. The cover shot was taken by James of his his climbing partner- Epic, as they traversed a knife edge ridge up at 17, 000ft. The article provides a fascinating (and pretty scary) insight into how to act when things go wrong on BIG mountains.

To read the Article CLICK HERE