Jeanne Socrates becomes world's oldest female solo circumnavigator

12:32 AM Sun 8 May 2011 GMT

'Jeane Socrates route - Cape Town to Cape Town' .

She's done it! British solo sailor Jeanne Socrates, 68 years and the female answer to the world's oldest male circumnavigator, Japan's Minoru Saito, has crossed her outbound path in the waters to the south west of Cape Town, to make her the oldest female solo circumnavigator. Only the birds around her witnessed her achievement: 'Under a bright sunny sky, witnessed by a pair of circling albatross, several petrels and a pair of shearwaters, we crossed our December 2nd 2009 path south from Lanzarote towards Cape Town.' But of course that doesn't mean she can relax. There is still a major ...

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by Nancy Knudsen