Around Australia - Southern Ocean here we come!!



5:57 AM Sat 22 May 2010 GMT
'SAM 0166 - Save Our Seas Ocean Racing' Ian Thomson Click Here to view large photo
Day 18 into Ian Thomson's solo sailing Around Australia WSSRC record attempt and not only have things got interesting but also intense. Save Our Seas Ocean Racing departed Airlie Beach on the fifth of May at 10:30:20 in an effort to break the world record for sailing non-stop solo around Australia. Ian's mission is about raising awareness of what the damage plastic bags do to our environment. 'What a difference a day can make!' Ian reported this morning 'Yesterday I was sitting in the cockpit at one stage just in my shorts on my beanbag, reading a book in the ...


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