Jesse Martin
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Jesse Martin (born August 26, 1981, Dachau, Germany) is an Australian sailor who became the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo, non-stop and unassisted in 1999. His journey, in the 34-foot sloop Lionheart-Mistral, took approximately 11 months. He chronicled his adventures in the book Lionheart: A Journey of the Human Spirit, and his story was made into a TV movie, Lionheart: The Jesse Martin Story.
At just 17, Martin departed Melbourne on December 7, 1998 to begin his journey around the world in his yacht, Lionheart. He arrived back in Melbourne on 31 October, 1999 and (literally) sailed into the record books at age 18. The entire journey covered 328 days and 27,000 nautical miles in all.
The voyage was sponsored by Mistral, the Melbourne newspaper the Herald Sun, the Sandringham Yacht Club, Kodak, REV milk and Autohelm. Mistral was the major sponsor, donating over $AU 300,000, on the conditions that the name was placed on the sail, prominently and repeatedly on the boat, on the bottom of Martin's weekly newspaper column, and on Martin's clothing.
Martin now lives in Papua New Guinea, where he has started a sailing tour company and a media production company.[1]
[edit] Further reading
- Jesse Martin, Lionheart: A Journey of the Human Spirit. Orion Publ. Co., 2001. ISBN 0-7528-4842-9.
[edit] External links
- BBC news article on Jesse Martin
- Jesse Martin at the Internet Movie Database
- IMDB entry for Lionheart: The Jesse Martin Story
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