Sailing around the World in a Small Boat

Everyone might be pleased to see different countries and meet with new people and cultures anywhere in the world.  At the meeting at Penley's, where Rotarians and their guests met, Graham and Mary Watts took them around the world, showing through their slides the wonders of natural and human diversity.  In there 36 foot long steel hulled sailing boat they went on a "Round the World Cruising Rally", a journey that lasted two years. They left Gibraltar and sailed west across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean to the Panama Canal to the Pacific, sailing to Australia, then through South East Asia and on to the Mediterranean and Gibraltar and journey's end. While their presentation was excellent, their skill and sense of adventure was admired, the consensus was that it was not a journey most could plan or emulate and they were special people. John Alcock proposed the vote of thanks.