Some three months after leaving Southampton, 41-year-old Geoff Holt sailed back into the Solent on 5 September and into the record books. He had sailed alone round Britain in a 15ft trimaran: an epic feat for a man who is paralysed from the neck down.
Holt, a former delivery skipper, had an accident at the age of 18 that left him quadriplegic. Since 1990, he has championed disabled sailing and he helped found the charity RYA Sailability, but this spring he set out to make a record-breaking voyage of his own that he had long dreamed about: to become the first disabled sailor to single-handedly circumnavigate Britain. He called it his ‘Personal Everest’.
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Download: Geoff Holt's 'Personal Everest' Sail Around Britain (M4a, 5.16 Mb)
