Young Australian Heads Home Alone

I came across the website of a young Australian, 26 year old Nick from Melbourne, who is sailing single handed from Europe to Australia. Nick has bought a Contessa 26, a small but very seaworthy boat that is popular in the UK. He is operating on very limited funds and is financing his adventure by commercial sponsorships and donations from family, friends and well wishers.

He has been documenting his trials and tribulations, which make interesting reading. So far he has sailed from England to the Canary Islands, crossing the notorious Bay of Biscay unscathed. Nick is intending to set off across the Atlantic to the Caribbean on the 10th February, a voyage which will take about 30 days. Depending on his later plans this will be one of the longest unbroken legs of his trip. The weather for this voyage is usually good with consistent trade-winds for most of the time and his wind steering should be able to steer most of the time. I hope he has plenty of books.

I wish Nick a quick and uneventful trip and look forward to hearing all about his trans Atlantic crossing in due course.