London, Jan 4. (PTI): A 14-year-old British boy is poised to become the youngest person to sail single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean.
Michael Perham of Hertfordshire set off from Gibraltar on November 18 and, and has spent six-and-a-half weeks alone in the open sea. He will achieve the feat after he arrives in Antigua on Wednesday, where he will be met by a delegation from the Island's Government.
Michael, who is being tailed in a separate boat by his father Peter, has suffered a series of setbacks in the later stages of his quest that have pushed back his estimated time of arrival, the Times daily reported on Wednesday.
But his spokesman said that Michael was about 100 km from the Antiguan coastline.
On Christmas Day, he wrote on his weblog "At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we put the clocks back 4 hours to be on Antigua time and that means we've probably had the longest Christmas Day in the world".
Michael Perham of Hertfordshire set off from Gibraltar on November 18 and, and has spent six-and-a-half weeks alone in the open sea. He will achieve the feat after he arrives in Antigua on Wednesday, where he will be met by a delegation from the Island's Government.
Michael, who is being tailed in a separate boat by his father Peter, has suffered a series of setbacks in the later stages of his quest that have pushed back his estimated time of arrival, the Times daily reported on Wednesday.
But his spokesman said that Michael was about 100 km from the Antiguan coastline.
On Christmas Day, he wrote on his weblog "At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we put the clocks back 4 hours to be on Antigua time and that means we've probably had the longest Christmas Day in the world".
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