Tim Whitrow is sailing Sea Dragon, a 56ft Formosa ketch built in the 1980s, around the world alone. He won't stop at a single port, he won't start the engine, and nobody can help him. It's a Guinness World Records attempt, and he hopes to be the first amputee to do it.
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Losing a limb isn't what defines you. How you deal with it is.
Tim's voyage is a message to the amputee community, and to anyone facing a challenge of their own, seen or unseen: however hard the task, you can do it if you set your mind to it. Why Tim's sailing
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Where's Tim right now?
Right now he's getting Sea Dragon ready. Once he leaves Port Adelaide, South Australia in October 2027, this map will show where he is, day and night, for the whole voyage.
Position comes from the Iridium satellite tracker on board, with AIS for nearby shipping. Starlink means Tim can send log entries and photos from the middle of the ocean.
Pilot, diver, twenty years a winemaker, and friend to every animal he meets. In 2019 a plane crash in Renmark cost him his right leg. He got back up, bought a boat, and now he's taking on the planet.
The pilotAbove the cloudsThe winemakerSA, China, USA, CyprusThe diverBelow the reefThe animal loverFriends everywhereThe comebackBack up since 2019The sailorNext stop: nowhere
Sea Dragon is a 56ft Formosa ketch built in the 1980s. She's just had a complete repaint, stripped back to bare hull and brought back in deep racing green.
Over the next year she'll be fitted out for months at sea with nobody to call for parts: new sails and spares, rigging, emergency gear and offshore upgrades.
Every dollar goes into the boat, the gear and getting Tim home safe
The public goal on GoFundMe is $100,000. It pays for boat infrastructure, spare sails, ropes and spares of just about everything, supplies, offshore upgrades, emergency equipment and maintenance. Corporate sponsorship is on top of that, and is counted separately.
Companies in sailing, marine and prosthetics can put their name on the voyage. See sponsorship options.
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