Amazing!

When Ellen MacArthur beat Francis Joyon's solo round the world sailing record three years ago it was deemed almost miraculous! All the way round in just 71 days!!

Francis however has just won his record back and smashed Ellen's by 14 days!!!! In total he took 57 days 13 hours 34 minutes 6 seconds!! (There is a very cool animation comparing their journies here).

In 1969 Robin Knox Johnston completed the first solo not stop voyage and it took him 313 days!!

Francis (if my sums are right) averaged almost 16 knots for the whole journey in his awesome 97 foot multihull. 16 knots is as fast as we ever sailed when we raced round Britain a couple of years ago!!

The man is amazing. And well done IDEC for sponsoring this and making it happen.

The final frontier

It is the case that every single video game - from SuperMario Land 2 on the gameboy right through to clever stuff on Playstations etc - has seen my boys beat me in a more than convincing manner.

Wind the clock back a little bit to 1979 and the world's first fully colour arcade game Galaxian and there is a different story!

We got a box of tricks that plugs straight into the television - Galaxian reborn!!

The boys have not got a clue!!! I can thrash the living daylights out of them. They struggle to hit five figures!!! In the arcade game I was good for 60-70,000. Not quite back at that level yet, as you can see. But I'm happy!!!

Brings back memories of an old buddy Dave Gilbert. He had an amazing ability to defy death by zapping an alien right on top of his "ship". When asked how he did it, he replied "Look - if you're going to go for it - go for it!!!" Sound advice indeed! :-)

The "Story of Kevi's Trekkers"

The Internet has now made it so easy for people to create, good quality, self-published books. There are a lot of service out there and one of the best is Blurb . It allows the creation of hard or softcover books with good quality photos - for a really great prices (especially if you order more than ten copies).

You can see the official book of our charity trek in China (TrekChina0907) below.



You can buy the book online here:

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The story of "Kevi...

By Ken Douglas

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