Alone on a wide, wide sea

Lieutenant Commander (Lt Cdr) Abhilash Tomy is ready to make history. This naval pilot is going to attempt circumnavigating the globe on a 56-feet long boat, Alone and non-stop, becoming the first Indian and only the eighteenth ever to do so. In this journey of 22,000 nautical miles (40000 kms), he intends to drop anchor not even once…

The number of people who have been to space is approximately 400 and around 5000 have stood on Mt Everest, but till date, only 181 people have circumnavigated the earth of who less than 80 have done it non-stop. Lieutenant Commander Abhilash Tomy is to set about one such extraordinary trip, one even more exclusive as he is an amateur with only 17 accomplished amateurs having tried anything similar before him. Abhilash was lucky to have cut his teeth on sailing with the only Indian solo circumnavigator, Commander Dilip Donde whilst part of the preparation team of Sagar Parikrama. This will be Sagar Parikrama 2, scheduled for November 1 and to finish sometime in April.