London to Auckland

Since the London-Auckland ride ended many people have asked if there is going to be a book. My response has always been that I couldn’t get interested in writing about something that didn’t have a happy ending. It would be a struggle, in spite of all the interesting things we did and saw, to write [...]

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Greetings. First I must apologize for not updating you until now. But until now I really wasn’t in the mood for talking about the ride on this forum. It took quite a while to come to grips with the way it all ended and some issues are still causing grief. I have spent a great [...]

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Ultimate Ride Team Rescued by Greek Air force. At c.1.30pm on 31st August Jeremy Burfoot, Travis Donoghue and Ivan Otulic were rescued by Greek Air force helicopter about 60km south east of Santorini in the Aegean Sea. The three men set out at 5am from the island of Karpathos with the intention of making Santorini [...]

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This post in memory of Douglas John Ell and Vanessa Margaret Beare Dear Friends/Supporters You have probably noticed that not much info has been forthcoming in the past few days. I apologize for that but there is a very good reason. We did make the south coast of Turkey at Fenike two days ago but [...]

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We’re still here. Hoping the parts will arrive today. If they do we ‘ll be off on a mission tomorrow to make Cairo by Saturday afternoon so watch the tracker. Cheers J

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What would you do if stuck in north western Turkey waiting for parts? The answer was obvious to us so we hired a car and visited the Gallipoli Peninsular. This is the site of a major battle in 1915 between Commonwealth forces and the Turks in an attempt to control shipping in the Dardanelles and [...]

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Most of you will be aware that this ride was seriously underfunded from the start. But we persevered because it’s a great cause and we were optimistic that more funding would come. But until yesterday that wasn’t the case and with expenses on our credit cards reaching their limits, I put out an emergency call [...]

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We had asked the boys from Aqua Motors who had done the service to pick us up from our hotel at 6.45am for a 7am departure, but they were late so we caught a cab to the marina thinking they might be there waiting. They weren’t. They were now waiting outside our hotel. We couldn’t [...]

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Today we spent the day repairing the damage to Ivan’s Seadoo and doing a routine service on all three.Thanks to Vidal Itkin and the boys from Aqua Motors for all their good work and assistance. In the evening we had a wonderful Turkish dinner on the waterfront near our hotel. I hate to take advantage [...]

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Waking at 7.30 we ate breakfast and then decided to head down to customs via the Seadoos. When we got to the Seadoos, we were again thrown into shock. Some one had got on them to steal from the glove boxes and front compartments and had untied Ivan’s front rope. This meant that his machine [...]

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