The British yachtsman who sailed into the record books this month when he became the first sailor ever to circumnavigate the globe solo through the icebound Arctic has been forced to put his boat up for sale.
British sailor Adrian Flanagan is expected to arrive at the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Southampton, England, at 10 a.m. local time today after completing his 30,000-mile trip around the world, going westward around Cape Horn and along the Russian Arctic Coast in his 38-foot stainless steel yacht, Barrabas, according to a press release.
There are some who might claim it is no longer possible to find an adventure that hasn't already been done by someone else. But try telling that to Adrian Flanagan. Yesterday, after two-and-a-half years and 30,000 miles at sea, Mr Flanagan, 47, a former osteopath from near Bicester, Oxfordshire, became the first person in the world to sail "vertically" around the world on his own, completing
A British yachtsman has become the first man to sail around the world via the Arctic north of Russia. Adrian Flanagan, 47, set off on his 48,000 kilometre trip in October 2005 and returned to Hample, Hampshire, in southern England.
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