Family Adventure like no other. A BRITISH adventurer and his three-man crew have set sail for Australia in an 11-metre wooden boat that he built himself, in a bid to re-create a 150-year-old voyage.
In November 1854, a wooden boat called Mystery set sail from Cornwall, southwest England, bound for Australia with seven Cornishmen hoping to escape their lives of poverty and dig for gold in the colonies, a trip that eventually took 116 days.
“After the long months of building, training and preparation it is great to be finally underway,” said Pete Goss, a former royal marine, who has said the Spirit of Mystery project began “with an idea and a chainsaw.”
His crew of four is made up of his 14-year-old son Eliot, brother Andy and brother-in-law Mark Maidment, while the boat has been built from wood taken from the area around Cornwall.
They will navigate using only the stars, just as the original Mystery did, on their 17,700km journey, and the boat is fitted with a satellite tracking device so others can view its progress on Mr Goss’s website.
Adventurer Pete Goss to sail from UK to Australia | NEWS.com.au.
