Next leg of the journey for Turriff's own high seas sailing ship

Turriff's own sailing ship the Adventure 2 is back on its travels having been launched on the next leg of its journey yesterday.

Brothers Ollie and Harry Ferguson, whose sailing boat adventures continue to gain global attention created Adventure 2 after the success of their first boat which earned them a Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled at sea by a toy boat.

In September last year Adventure 2 was launched 60 miles north of Guyana on the same track as the original Adventure.

The Adventure 2 sailed for 4000km westwards across the Caribbean Sea surviving two hurricanes and an undersea earthquake during its four-month odyssey.

Nearing Honduras in early December winds forced the vessel onto the shore in a remote lagoon in the Honduran jungle, and thus began a search to find her.

Thanks to the efforts of locals from Brus Lagoona, the boat was eventually located and handed in to officials in the Honduran Navy.

Following some repair work, the boat was taken to Guanaja, an island visited by Columbus in 1502, where thanks to resident Roland Rumm and his son Santi, the vessel has been repaired and was launched on the next stage of its journey.

Roland explained: "We took her 10km north of Guanaja for her to hopefully hit the WNW currents that eventually end up in the Gulf Stream.

"We are off to a fabulous start, the tracker is working and will ping a position every six hours.

"We have very favourable winds hopefully for the next four days."

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