Sanders Sails Again
In the annals of shorthanded sailing, Australian Jon Sanders stands with the greatest. His achievements are little short of awe-inspiring, all the more so for being accomplished in modest boats on small budgets.
A sheep shearer, his S&S 34. In 1981-82 Sanders became the first singlehanded sailor to circumnavigate Antarctica, which he did not once but twice on , covering 48,510 miles in 419 days. He turned left after rounding Cape Horn for the second time and sailed up to Plymouth in England, turned around and sailed back down the Atlantic and around the tip of South Africa to his starting point at Fremantle, Western Australia, all nonstop.
