Yachtie beats pain barrier
NZPA London A partly-disabled sailor, Mike Spring, has defied his own pain barrier by completing a solo voyage to the Azores in almost half the time he expected. Falmouth Coast Guards said yesterday that they had received a message from their counterparts on the Atlantic islands saying the
computer operator, aged 39, who is paralysed from the waist down, had landed at Ponta Delgada.
Mike set off from Falmouth on June 16, saying that he expected to complete the voyage, in his yacht 3M Mariner, in 30 days. He arrived after 16 days.
A Falmouth Coast Guard spokesman said: “It’s an amazing achievement for anyone. Sixteen days is faster than some of the racing yachts can manage. But for him it’s quite some- > thing.”
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Press, 4 July 1983, Page 10
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