Lone Jeanne's at a half-way mark in the Roaring Forties

How’s that amazing lady, Jeanne Socrates, doing on her own down there in the mighty Southern Ocean, and all alone for the 167th day?

This is the, well, elder with her heart set on two astonishing world titles, to be the oldest woman to sail solo nonstop unassisted around the world, and the first woman to sail solo nonstop unassisted around the world from North America.

And the 76-year-old has been alone on her 38-ft yacht, Nereida, since 3rd October.

 She left the Pacific coast of the US, sailed down through the North then South Pacific, the into the very grown-up waters of the Southern Ocean and rounded notorious old Cape Horn.

Utter determination

Now’s she followed the Roaring Forties to South Africa, had the strength of mind – and utter determination – to keep sailing and is now nearly halfway across the oceanic gap between South Africa and Australia.

Will the temptation to be back in human company be too strong, and will she turn slightly North-East for very hospitable Freemantle and Perth?

The temptation must be there, at least in the back of her mind, and of course, every day she that she plots her position on a chart, she sees how much more alluringly close she is getting to complete and completely safe hospitality.

She knows it, but her logbook ignores it singlemindedly. It gets not a mention.
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