Solo sailor record-breakers link up to Save Our Seas

5:29 AM Sat 11 Jun 2011 GMT

'Bruce Arms on his Big Wave Rider' .

In July this year Mooloolaba-based Bruce Arms, Jessica Watson's manager for her successful circumnavigation, will embark on a mission to be the first person to sail a multihull solo, nonstop and unassisted around Australia in a record-breaking 35 days. Now he has announced a new liaison. The record he is trying to break is that of solo sailor Ian Thomson who circumnavigated Australia last year going for a similar record. His reason for doing so was creating awareness of the damage that plastics are doing to our oceans, as a part of Save Our Seas, ...

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by Sail-World Cruising