So as a topic that has come up on several occasions recently is endurance and flying round the world none stop. One achievement that I think ranks up there and in my opinion surpasses that is sailing solo around the world in a tri-miran (sp?)
Ellen McCarthur (sp?) sailed solo around the world in 71 days and change, through the southern seas, the north and south atlantic, through enormous storms and did not sight or smell land for 2 months.
She suffered sleep deprivation at one point clocking 20 minutes of sleep in one 72 hour period, they know this because she was being monitored with bio monitoring equipment by her shore crew.
She climbed a 110 foot mast twice in the north atlantic.
Can you imagine being thousands of miles from the nearest person and knowing that if anything goes pear shaped you are well and truly on your own, if it breaks you need to fix it, if you have to stay awake for three days thats what you do. If there is a storm and you cant sail round it, you go through it.
The woman was amazing.
On top of which having read Tom D's read on Deep survival, she highlighted through out the documentary on her journey the sense of humour she had to keep, the sense of amazement being out there and the coolest film was of her sitting on one of the outside parts of tri-miran as the sun set, somewhere you'd assume in the atlantic.
I thought the whole documentary and her journey were fantastic, if you get the chance to see it I reccomend it.
Ellen McCarthur (sp?) sailed solo around the world in 71 days and change, through the southern seas, the north and south atlantic, through enormous storms and did not sight or smell land for 2 months.
She suffered sleep deprivation at one point clocking 20 minutes of sleep in one 72 hour period, they know this because she was being monitored with bio monitoring equipment by her shore crew.
She climbed a 110 foot mast twice in the north atlantic.
Can you imagine being thousands of miles from the nearest person and knowing that if anything goes pear shaped you are well and truly on your own, if it breaks you need to fix it, if you have to stay awake for three days thats what you do. If there is a storm and you cant sail round it, you go through it.
The woman was amazing.
On top of which having read Tom D's read on Deep survival, she highlighted through out the documentary on her journey the sense of humour she had to keep, the sense of amazement being out there and the coolest film was of her sitting on one of the outside parts of tri-miran as the sun set, somewhere you'd assume in the atlantic.
I thought the whole documentary and her journey were fantastic, if you get the chance to see it I reccomend it.
