Phoenicia team navigate Cape of Good HopeCongratulations and well done!
9:00am Tuesday 16th March 2010 (Dorset Echo)
By Laura Kitching
A PRIMITIVE sailing venture being led by a Dorset adventurer has overcome its biggest challenge yet.
A team of 15 international sailors have breathed a sigh of relief as they successfully completed one of the toughest stretches of a 17,000-mile voyage around Africa – navigating the Cape of Good Hope.
This stretch of coastline is a considerable challenge in any modern sailing yacht, but the Phoenicia team managed it in a replica 600 BC Phoenician wooden ship.
Expedition leader Philip Beale, who conceived the project from his base at East Chaldon, near Lulworth, had described it as the ‘critical point in the expedition’.
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