A woman who set out with her boyfriend on a 1,000-day sailing trip has abandoned the quest about one-third of the way through, saying she was plagued by seasickness.
"It was such a hard decision to make," Soanya Ahmad said after landing Friday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, having left the 70-foot (21-meter) yacht off the coast of Australia late last month. "We'd been through so much."
Ahmad and Reid Stowe left from Hoboken, New Jersey, on April 21, 2007. Their aim: to sail around the world for 1,000 straight days without touching land, beating a 657-day record set by Australian Jon Sanders. He circumnavigated the globe three …
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