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Young sailor makes historic journey

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    First to sail 25 thousand miles alone

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Good bagpipers played they came to Annapolis by land by sea.

And by air.

-- welcome home Matt Rutherford.

Who took this 27 foot sailboat and a journey that lasted 309.

Days and more than 23000.

Nautical mile.

Now people before had sailed around the top of North America and all the way around the bottom of South America and back.

But until now no one has done this solo nonstop.

And here it is Maryland adventure -- Rutherford fine.

-- -- Among the hundreds in the crowd the governor of Maryland wearing shorts -- who voted.

And Maryland's first lady of meet their -- San.

In June of 2011 and.

Police on my mom he was wearing the same shirt that I five cents.

How did that -- feel after nearly eight years -- How -- a long time no see.

Really strange figures like a dream many men and on the -- openly in the middle of the ocean and it's happened over and over and over and over again.

This point I've -- -- around the hemisphere adventure was to raise money group called crash.

Chesapeake region accessible upload it which hopes to -- a heavy duty -- and work.

About eighteen years I've been wanting.

To be able to take it wheelchair user with an electric -- -- those -- -- And -- -- come down the -- and decide not to go out votes because they have to leave -- -- get your mind that so that's that's the big.

Think there.

There were dangers for this adventure particularly in the northwest passage.

There are times I have very very close near misses I had were -- -- and now the forget the last second I don't know radar on this boat.

All you don't and storms and it -- all together.

We -- -- but nearly killed by giant -- at one point but a lot of them what's next.

Writing -- I need a -- -- he's gone.

Indianapolis here John Henry fox the -- into another --

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