Jeanne Socrates, British solo grandmother, sails for the Horn

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9:44 PM Mon 6 Dec 2010 GMT

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British solo sailor Jeanne Socrates is this week over the equator and heading for Cape Horn. Timing her voyage so that she will round the much dreaded Cape Horn in the most favourable conditions, the gutsy grandmother, who didn't learn to sail until she was 51, is hoping that this time she'll make it round the world non-stop and unassisted. One month after sailing out of Victoria Harbour in Canada, Jeanne celebrated her crossing with a glass of mango juice, she wrote in her blog. The 67-year-old British grandmother began Oct. 25 on what she hopes will be a seven-month ...

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