Bonnie Hancock

We motored into Weeper at the top of Queensland.

It took me 10 days to convince him to go back out.

He said, I'm not putting my crew through that.

The boat can't handle it.

But eventually after 10 days, he said, we've got a little weather window.

You've got a couple of days to finish this off.

And to get across, I was going to have to do a new 24-hour record, a new Guinness World Record to cover that distance.

I just broke down and sobbed to my crew.

I didn't think it was possible.

And what happened?

I sobbed to them.

I wrote myself a letter to motivate myself to get back out there.

And within that letter, I actually reminded myself to be proud of everything I'd done.

And I knew that even if I was to fail that next day, I'd be okay because

And I could be proud with everything I'd put on the line, everything I'd gotten through.

And I'd be okay.

I got back out there the next day.

I paddled 173 kilometers in 24 hours.

I set a new Guinness World Record.

And I got to land the next day and I got us to the, to Seychelles, which is at the top of Queensland.