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Jeanne Socrates over the equator - again

6:44 AM Fri 2 Jul 2010 GMT

'Her sailing voyages so far...' . Click Here to view large photo

Solo sailor Jeanne Socrates has just emailed us saying she has crossed the equator - again! So how many times is that? When one is a passionate sailor like Jeanne Socrates, it's probably easy to lose count. Jeanne, in case you haven't heard of her, at 60-something, is building to be the female answer to Japan's eight-time-circumnavigator and 76-year-old Minoru Saito. After extensive cruising, (she didn't begin to sail until in her forties), in June, 2008, just as she was 60 miles and a half-day sail from the completion of her first solo circumnavigation of the world she was shipwrecked ...

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