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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Douglas Whitbread

Daredevil to sail Atlantic in one-metre long boat with 'food moulded to the walls'

A daredevil dad hopes to break a world record by sailing 1,900 miles across the Atlantic Ocean - in his self-built boat that’s just ONE METRE long.

Andrew Bedwell, 48, who will set off from Newfoundland, Canada, in May next year, compared the journey to being “stuck in a wheelie bin, on a rollercoaster for 90 days”.

The mariner came up with the idea after reading a book by current record holder Hugo Vihlen, who made the perilous passage in a 1.6m (5ft 4inch) boat 30 years ago.

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