ex Elly 258 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Fiona Heenan’s 600km solo sail for Guinness record and charity Six hundred kilometres is a long way to sail a tiny boat with scarcely little legroom. Still, 57-year-old yachtswoman Fiona Heenan is giving it a go for a chance at a Guinness world record and to raise funds for her favourite charity Sailability. The Irish-born former cruising yacht instructor has always been a keen adventurer. In the 30 years she has lived in New Zealand, she has tramped extensively and cycled from one end of the country to the other. Her quest to claim the world honour of longest single-handed distance sailed by a woman in a dinghy began when she set sail in her laser from Auckland on February 17, arriving in Northland about a week later. Heenan has years of experience sailing larger vessels and instructing sailing for them but says she had not been in a laser before this trip since she was 17. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/fiona-heenans-600km-solo-sail-for-guinness-record-and-charity/OCXZVB67V5BRJHTGU5H7GLMOMM/ 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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