Jimmy Cornell
23 November 2014
Jimmy Cornell being interviewed on local TV
Born in Romania, Jimmy Cornell married an English woman and immigrated to England in 1969. In 1975 they left England with their two children for a 6 year circumnavigation. After that he has crossed the oceans and circumnavigated several times, and has more than 200.000 miles behind. At 70 he was supposed to go ashore, but couldn`t. Instead he had a special yacht built suitable for all weather and climate conditions, and sailed to the Arctic last summer at the age of 74. At the end of 2012 he launched a new round the world event, the Blue Planet Odyssey which aims to raise awareness of climate change by visiting parts of the world most threatened by climate change. He has also written a series of books for cruisers, of wich the "World Cruising Routes" has become almost a Bible.