Annals Of Adventure–Roslin Forrest Sails Away: Most 23-year olds are messing around with resumes and wondering why they have to get older. Canadian Roslin Forrest has found the perfect solution: go sailing. On Sunday, Roslin set off singlehanded from Vancouver in her Columbia 34 “Scotwork” (I guess when you get sponsorship you have to go with the sponsor’s name, even if it is a clunker). Her goal is to become the youngest woman to sail solo and non-stop around the world. Right now that distinction belongs to Ellen MacArthur, who completed the non-stop Vendee Globe at the age of 24. Roslin is headed south for Cape Horn, and then east across the Southern Ocean. She expects to complete the voyage in about ten months (Ellen did it in three months). You can follow Roslin’s voyage here. There’s a lot of talk on sailing forums about Roslin’s relative lack of sailing experience, particularly offshore experience. But that’s what makes her voyage and its ambitions so courageous. Tania Aebi, who made it around the world solo, was basically put on the boat with no experience whatsoever by her father. So we’ll see how Roslin does. Right now, the going is nice and easy:

“Well a very slow four days, didn’t think it would take so long to get this far. I got wind for a few hours every day, but mostly glassy calm. First night was no fun in the shipping lanes after drifting there; rumbling monsters speeding by me, not sure if they saw me or not. Called Seattle Traffic to start warning them. Radar on every night and draining batteries.

Love Ros”

Cape Horn will be the first real test…



Glassy Departure: “Uh-oh. At this rate it’s going to take me 12 years to sail all the way around, and I definitely don’t have enough Skittles for that…”