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Video: Quadriplegic sailor completes record-breaking voyage

By: KentOnline reporter multimediadesk@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 14:47, 01 September 2009

Updated: 16:08, 02 May 2019

Watch our video report of
Hilary Lister's homecoming

by Chris Denham

Hilary Lister has sailed into Dover to become the first
quadriplegic woman to sail solo around Britain.

The 36-year-old from Dunkirk, near Canterbury arrived back on
Monday and was back at the port on Tuesday to meet many of the
people who have supported her - from her land crew, to those on the
safety boat, Kent County Council and the Lions Club, of which she
is a proud member.

Trying to describe her feelings, she said: "This is the only way
I know how to sail. It's just the most amazing feeling, you can go
anywhere, I can't move a metre on land without someone helping, but
in a boat..."

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