Pupils and parents at Stonyhurst College and members of the public are invited to hear first-hand about the exploits of ex-pupil and explorer Adrian Flanagan, who earlier this year become the first single-handed sailor to achieve a ‘vertical’ circumnavigation of the earth.

Adrian, who was at a boarder at Stonyhurst in the 1970s, will visit the College on 13th November at 7:30pm to give a presentation and will be signing his new book ‘Over The Top’ which details his amazing trip on his 38ft sloop ‘Barrabas’.

During his epic voyage that lasted 405 days and covered 31,000 miles Adrian dislocated both wrists, was tracked by pirates off Brazil and was washed overboard.

The Alpha Global Expedition ended at 11.00am on Wednesday 21st May 2008, when Barrabas crossed the start / finish line between Calshot Spit and Hillhead in the Solent.

Completing the voyage fulfilled a 30-year dream for Adrian, who, as a teenager boarding at Stonyhurst, was inspired by Sir Francis Chichester’s voyage on Gipsy Moth 1V in 1966/7.

He is only the 14th solo yachtsman to successfully double Cape Horn westwards against wind and current, recorded the first non-stop UK to Hawaii (18,000 nm) and is the only yachtsman to have ever sailed Russia’s Arctic Coast along the Northern Sea Route single-handed.

Tickets to Adrian’s presentation are £10 each which includes a glass of wine and proceeds of the ticket sales will go to Adrian’s nominated charities, Save the Children and the Oxford Children’s Hospital, as well as Stonyhurst’s own charity S.C.H.T.

To order tickets, please email association@stonyhurst.ac.uk

This event is expected to be a sell out and tickets will be issued on a fist-come, first-served basis