With no flights because of coronavirus, man sails solo across Atlantic

“Mission accomplished!” That joyful declaration came from Juan Manuel Ballestero, an Argentine sailor who, unable to fly home from Portugal due to the pandemic, crossed the ocean alone in his modest sailing boat to see his ageing parents.“I did it! I did it! I did it!” Ballestero exclaimed at dockside last week when he reached his hometown of Mar del Plata.The 47-year-old had completed an exhausting 85-day odyssey in his small boat, the nine-metre (30-foot) “Skua”.After testing negative for…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3090021/no-flights-because-coronavirus-man-sails-solo-across-atlantic