Disabled Sailor crosses English Channel
This is an awesome story.
Excerpted from The Guardian
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Excerpted from The Guardian
Photo by Gill Allen, Timesonline
By Colin Blackstock
Hilary Lister A paralysed woman has become the first quadriplegic sailor to cross the English Channel. yesterday sipped and puffed her way into the record books, becoming the first quadriplegic to sail solo across the Channel.
Lister, who is able to move only her head, eyes and mouth, used two straws to navigate her eight-metre (26ft) boat Malin through one of the busiest and most dangerous shipping channels in the world.
By sucking and blowing on the straws in her specially adapted boat she was able to adjust the sails and tiller of the boat
After arriving in France the 33-year-old said: "I am just thrilled."
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Friday, August 26, 2005
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1Comments:
At September 01, 2005 12:00 AM,
Martin said…
Check out these ridiculous blowhards. I find it very entertaining that these people think that sitting in around in their underwear, typing away in some dopey forum is anything close to the accomplishment this woman has made.
This is not a deathwish, it's calculated risk based on careful planning and training which has the ability to inspire multitudes.
This forum will inspire little more than a bunch of smug, adolescent giggling fits --much like fart jokes.
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