UKWA OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The UKWA would also like to announce as well as the start of voting for
Windsurfer of the Year, a special Outstanding Achievement Award to Jono Dunnett for his solo unaided circumnavigation of the UK.
Jono Dunnett for his solo unaided circumnavigation of the UK.
During this arduous trip he fished for food and sailed with dolphins during the 2,200-mile (3,540 km) journey. He is the fourth person to windsurf around Britain, but the first to do so without a water-based support team. He began the fund-raising trip on 7 June at Clacton Pier in Essex and and finished there to be welcomed by a huge crowd. The 41-year-old was inspired by Tim Batstone, the first windsurfer to sail around Britain, with a support boat, in 1984. Mr Dunnett took advice from windsurfers and a round-Britain yachtsman and “painstakingly risk-assessed” the project. He also received “some van-based support” and used a GPS tracker.
The longest distance he covered in one day was 100 miles as he travelled along the south coast. Jono slept in a makeshift tent made from his sail, but was sometimes given a bed by people who took pity on him when he was pitching his tent in cold, wet conditions. He said “Doing something like this, you appreciate the fundamental niceness of people”, but he added “There are parts of the journey, like Land’s End, I would never do again.” He also raised money for two charities, the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund and Supporting Tanzanian Orphans and Widows.
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