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A tetraplegic former Royal Navy helicopter pilot
has completed a three-and-a-half-month round-Britain voyage.
Wheelchair-bound Trevor Jones sailed his revolutionary
£1 million wingsailed trimaran craft Inventure into Plymouth,
from where he set off on August 6.
Friends and well-wishers gathered at the Mayflower
Marine to welcome Mr Jones, who spent eight years getting the
project together.
Mr Jones, 40, accompanied by a wheelchair-bound
crewman and two able-bodied carers, used the voyage as preparation
for a planned round-the-world trip, which would be the first
by a tetraplegic skipper.
Mr Jones said the round-Britain voyage had been
a terrific experience.
He said he would need to rethink his proposed
world route to enable him to make the voyage in shorter stretches
and would also have to improve his personal fitness.
He originally hoped to set off on the circumnavigation
next year, but now estimates a full summer's work, as well as
more sea trials, would be required to ready Inventure for the
trip, which will require another £1 million in sponsorship.
Mr Jones, from Fulham, west London, said he
was very happy with the performance of the 60ft-long Inventure
and her 40ft vertical wingsails.
Story filed: 14:31 Monday 19th November 2001
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