over the side. Don’t forget, this lady is a 68 year-old grandmother that is doing all of this alone. Jeanne has a website you can
log onto during her adventure. 48° North features a direct link on their homepage,
www.48north.com which will take you to Jeanne’s website,
www.svnereida.com where you can read more about her boat, herself and her adventures, and you can follow her on her blog. When Laurie and I, along with
Mike and Nancy Domaille, had dinner with Jeanne she seemed to be a normal, attractive, much younger looking woman than her 68 years would indicate and she had a sometimes impossible for me to understand British accent. She and her husband set out eight
years ago to sail around the world. He developed prostate cancer and they had to fly home to England where he, unfortunately, was unable to conquer the cancer. She returned to where they had left the first Nereida and resumed their around the world trip, but without her husband. Since then she has sailed in the Singlehanded Transpac race from San Francisco to Kauai and already gone solo almost around the world. She was just 60 miles short of completing her solo circumnavigation when, north of Acapulco while she was taking a catnap, the self steering malfunctioned. She woke up when the breaking surf drove the vessel onto the beach where it was a total loss. Fortunately the wreck was near a village and she was able to get help and salvage some of her stuff, but her logs culminating all of her trips were a total loss. Laurie and I first met Jeanne on
our trip back from Glacier Bay, Alaska in 2005. It was a very stormy afternoon and we were having trouble anchoring in Meyer’s Chuck. After four or five tries where the anchor wouldn’t hold, we gave up and looked for a place at the dock. There was only one spot dangerously close to the rocks on shore. We had to do it exactly right or we would be blown onto the rocks. As Laurie steered us into the narrow space, there was Jeanne jumping off of her sailboat and running to receive our lines and safely tying us up. Rescuing us called for a glass of wine which led to a nice meal of fresh salmon and a
Two single-spaced, typewritten
pages list the many items of equipment she has on board. She will have two solar panels on a radar arch on the transom and behind the end of the boom that are capable of generating 55 watts each, plus two more generating 80 watts to recharge her batteries. A wind propeller generates even more electricity to run the many different electronics she will have on board, including HF/SSB radio, VHF radio, and a 32-mile radar with an 18-inch dome. For companionship, along with her radios, she will have her computer for emails and updating her progress on the website. Why don’t you join us and take the
“Nereida” undergoing last minute preparations in Victoria, B.C. before leaving on circumnavigation.
long evening of conversation about her world-wide wanderings. They would fill up a couple of volumes, so I think we should get back to her current plans for her awesome journey around the world nonstop and solo.
round the world trip with her on your computer? And by the way, where are you planning on going on your next trip?
Jeanne left Victoria on October 25th.
At press time she was about the latitude of Costa Rica. The Galapagos are 1705 NM to the ESE. To follow her journey, go to
www.48North.com and click on her picture which will take you to her homepage, blog and tracker.
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