Stranded in Acapulco. Beset by rigging problems in Cape Town. Knocked down near Cape Horn. Jeanne Socrates endured her fair share of setbacks in her quest to sail around the world alone without any stops and outside assistance. But in the end, she persevered.
It was Monday at 2:26 a.m. Pacific time when Socrates and her 38-foot cutter Nereida ghosted across the finish line just outside the harbor of Victoria, British Columbia, to the blaring of air horns and hardy spectators applauding and waving glow sticks on the breakwater. After nearly 260 days and more than 25,000 miles she had … More