Round the world sailor
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has no room to move
Young Frenchman, Serge Testa arrived in the Mar quesas attempting to beat the record for the smallest craft to complete a circumnavigation.
Serge left Brisbane (he had been living in Australia for 15 years) in July, 1984 and reached the Marquesas by way of Darwin, Cocos Islands, South Africa, St Helena, Bra zil, Venezuela, Panama, and the Galapagos Islands.
He built his tiny craft,
Acrohc Australis himself. The word derives from an Italian (Serge is part Italian) dialect term for “machine”.
The aluminium mini-craft is 3.55 metres long with a beam of 1.5 metres.
Physical comforts in such a tiny boat are few, but Serge says he has had no problems so far.
He was bound for Tahiti before embarking on the final leg back to Brisbane.