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Chay Blyth, after only a few hours of instruction under sail and sailing only a handful of miles in sole charge of his boat, set out from the Hamble River in a small family cruiser, beat his way out of the English Channel, found his sea legs crossing the Bay of Biscay, worked past Madeira and into the Trade winds, weathered the bulge of South America, and then carried right on down the South Atlantic to test his skill even in the Roaring Forties before he decided that it was asking too much of his shallow-draught bilge-keel boat to aim for Cape Horn.
Thus he put into harbour and cabled to his wife, Maureen, to join him for the long sail back home. She came at once, and her first experience of a sailing boat was to set out with Chay into the Southern Ocean which, off South Africa, is often stirred into a maelstrom as the Aghullas Current fights against the westerly gales.
For both of them it was a remarkable achievement, but I hope that no one will be misled by their delightfully light-hearted story, often told in land language instead of sea terms, into thinking that their venture was casual.
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