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Disabled sailor Natasha Lambert has become the first person to sail across the Atlantic using just sip and puff technology to control her boat.
Natasha Lambert crossed the Atlantic on her Nautitech Open 46, Blown Away - the largest vessel ever converted to use sip and puff technology. Credit: Natasha Lambert
Natasha Lambert, 23, has become the first person to sail across the Atlantic using just sip and puff technology to control her boat.
The skipper, who has quadriplegic athetoid cerebral palsy which affects her limbs and speech, left from Gran Canaria with her crew as part of the 2020 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) fleet.
70 feet in the air. the explosion could have taken us away but it didn t. trapped aboard a sinking battleship, he and five others managed to escape which killed more than 1,000 shipmates. with the help of a fellow sailor who threw them a lifeline from a ship near it. with burns over 60% of his body, he had to escape the burning warship. we went across the line, 60, 70 feet. that was the tough part. he kept saying come on, you can make it. the man who rescued him, joe george. in his book, stratton described joe as the strongest man in the harbor. he disobeyed orders and threw stratton the line. his granddaughter says that she owes her life to him and her grandfathers because of the young sailor s actions that day.
70 feet in the air. the explosion could have taken us away but it didn t. trapped aboard a sinking battleship, he and five others managed to escape which killed more than 1,000 shipmates. with the help of a fellow sailor who threw them a lifeline from a ship near it. with burns over 60% of his body, he had to escape the burning warship. we went across the line, 60, 70 feet. that was the tough part. he kept saying come on, you can make it. the man who rescued him, joe george. in his book, stratton described joe as the strongest man in the harbor. he disobeyed orders and threw stratton the line. his granddaughter says that she owes her life to him and her grandfathers because of the young sailor s actions that day.