He was sailing solo around Antarctica, disalberated in the storm
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Remember Lisa Blair, the sailor(whom we told you about here) who had set off on January 15 from Albany, Australia, for a solo circumnavigation of Antarctica aboard an Open 50?
The mast of Climate Action Now, that’s the name of the boat (designed in 2003 by Robert Hick initially for the Double Handed Melbourne to Osaka Yacht Race), did not hold up on the 72nd day of sailing.
895 miles south of Cape Town, Lisa Blair dismasted on the evening of April 3 at 8:30 pm, as it was hit by a gale with 40 knots of air and 7-meter-high waves. The skipper is fine.
LISA’S VIDEO: ‘I’M FINE’
MAKESHIFT WEAPONRY
Lisa’s intention is to use the boom as a small mast and rig a makeshift brim, so as to stabilize the boat on its return, motoring back to Cape Town. A Hong Kong-flagged ship will try to cross Lisa and provide her with fuel and help with repairs if needed. Sailing to Cape Town will take at least 10 days, at an estimated speed of 4.5 knots.
KONYUKHOV’S RECORD ENDURES
It will then remain to beat Russian Fedor Filippovich Konyukhov’s record (102 days and 56 minutes always remaining between the 45th and 60th parallels south). The Russian super-explorer (born in 1951, he has climbed Everest twice and reached the North Pole three times, the South Pole once, and circumnavigated the globe four times under sail, in addition to having crossed the Atlantic in a canoe) had succeeded in an 82-foot boat.
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