Jeanne Socrates Is Halfway Around
Jeanne Socrates is 160 days into her attempt to become the oldest person to sail nonstop and alone around the world. As it turns out, 160 days is the halfway point.
“I had a celebratory halfway breakfast of a few delicious stem-ginger biscuits I found by my bunk,” Socrates said on her blog. “These were a very nice surprise and went well with some orange juice as I settled down to rest.”
Socrates is also roughly halfway between South Africa and Australia. Once she rounds the South Cape on New Zealand, she’ll hang a left and start climbing north in her long Pacific journey back to Victoria, British Columbia.
As we reported about a month ago, Socrates has been having trouble with her mainsail, and has been using a jury rig. “Lots of different jobs needing to be done by way of preparation before I can actually get to sewing the tabling onto the mainsail,” she wrote a few days ago. “Looking at organizing tying of mainsail to enable releasing the top section to work on while seas are relatively calm.”
Meanwhile . . .
After checking in with us recently, Randall Reeves is about 10 days from Cape Horn. But it appears that he’s waiting out a nasty-looking low hugging the west coast of South America.
