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A quadriplegic sailor set off on a journey around the British Isles in a boat she controls with her breath.
Hilary
Lister, 36, set sail alone in her boat from Dover on the southeast
coast of England, steering her specially adapted yacht by blowing and
sucking on straws to adjust the sails and tiller.
She had planned to leave a week ago, but malfunctioning electronics and a broken mast delayed her launch.As she set sail on Monday afternoon, Lister said she was feeling confident.
"We've
broken everything that can be broken and everything that could have
gone wrong has gone wrong, so we've got to be OK now," she told
journalists.
Lister
will sail about 18 hours a day and will come into shore every night. An
inflatable boat will sail alongside her and a crew will provide support
on land. She expects the journey to take around three months.
Lister, who is paralyzed
from the neck down, has already broken sailing records. In August 2005
she became the first quadriplegic to sail solo across the English
Channel. She was diagnosed as a teenager with reflex sympatheticdystrophy, a degenerative disease, and took up sailing in 2003 as a way to boost her self confidence.
Her latest project will raise money for her sailing charity
Malfunctioning/adjective/:
function in a defective manner بدعمل كردن
Paralyzed/past participle of the paralyze/:
cause palsy, make immobile, cause paralysis فلج كردن، از كار انداختن، بيحس كردن
Sympathetic
/adjective/:
compassionate, caring همدرد، دلسوز
Dystrophy /noun/:
disorder caused by poor nutrition سوء تغذيه
Degenerative
/adjective/:
tending to cause progressive deterioration of mental and physical functioning (i.e. degenerative disease) وابسته به انحطاط، فاسد كننده
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