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Saturday, March 11, 2006
There are no shoe shops in mid-Atlantic
Three years after Seb Clover, at the age of just 15, became the youngest skipper to sail across the Atlantic, his mother Dolores is re-tracing his tracks on her own single-handed transatlantic odyssey. She set out from Puerto Colon in Tenerife on February 12 and is set to make landfall on Antigua at the end of next week — making the Clovers the only family whose every member has sailed single-handedly across the Atlantic.
Dolores's sailing instructor husband, Ian, said:
"On the down side, the woman I love is out there facing the possibility of storms, rig failure, hull failure, lightning strike, whale attack and a whole list of other dangers. But let's look on the bright side — there are no shoe shops in mid-Atlantic."
MUM MAKES IT A TRANSATLANTIC TRIPLE
