The amazing 'unbeaching' of Donna Lange's boat



7:39 PM Mon 20 Sep 2010 GMT
'Donna sailing for her life' .
Usually, when a boat ends up on a beach, it is crushed to death by the beating of the surf, buried in sand and is removed, piece by piece, by truck. That was until resourceful solo circumnavigator Donna Lange came along. We followed Donna's inspirational journey around the world on her yacht Inspired Insanity to become the fastest American woman ever to complete a circumnavigation, and now she is the face of New Zealand-born organisation OceansWatch in America. But her successful 'unbeaching' of her yacht after it ran aground in North Carolina must top everything. Most people would give up, not ...


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by Sail-World Cruising/James Wieland




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