The Erratic Blogger

My apologies to those of you who have been checking for new posts on this site. It looks as if I cannot commit to the steady stream of output characteristic of a true blog - my life just doesn’t work that way. However, I want to assure you that I haven’t given up and gone [...]

Hilary Lister - a different kind of extreme sailing

On Friday 8 August 2008, three months before the start of the Vendée Globe, singlehanded sailor Hilary Lister and her team decided to suspend her round Britain record attempt and continue next spring. 8 weeks after leaving Dover, she had reached the southwest Cornish fishing port of Newlyn - a point she should have reached [...]