by MONITOR
IF Michael Perham has an essay to write on What I did during the Christmas holidays it should be well-worth reading. The 14-year-old's opening sentence might be: I left Gibraltar November 18, 2006, and sailed into Nelson's Dockyard, Antigua, January 3, 2007.
Forget the disappointments of the Ashes and the World Cup; Michael Perham's six-and-a-half week single-handed crossing of the Atlantic in his 28ft yacht Cheeky Monkey is a real national morale booster so early in the New Year and confirmation that the British continue to be able to produce fine solo sailors, whether golden oldies or extreme youngsters such as Michael Perham. He now holds the record for the youngest person ever to cross the Atlantic single-handed, a title previously held by Sebastian Clover of the Isle of Wight who sailed from the Canaries to Antigua in January 2003 at the age of 15.
AWAY FROM HOME, ALONE
04/01/2007 00:00
Also in Holiday
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Spanish pensioners stuck at Palma Airport for fourteen hours
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
- Watch those prices in Mallorca
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