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英国少年刷新单人环球航行最年轻纪录A 17-year-old Briton became the youngest person to sail round the globe single-handed on August 27th, 2009, after nine months at sea. Mike Perham suffered knockdowns[打击] and damage to his yacht during the 24,000-mile trip and the teenager from Hertfordshire, southern England, said he was looking forward to a “good meal and a very good night’s sleep.” Perham, who started sailing aged seven, was the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic Ocean, aged 14, in 2007. Perham began his round-the-world trip from Gunwharf Quays[码头] in Portsmouth, England, on November 18th last year as a 16-year-old, and celebrated his 17th birthday in the southern Indian Ocean.省略, and was forced to seek repairs at various ports, including in Portugal, Cape Town, Tasmania and Auckland. Because of that, Guinness World Records categorized his record as “assisted.” “The low points are when things go wrong unexpectedly and it is down to you to fix it, because that?s not getting you nearer to home, that?s only getting you further away,” he told BBC television by phone. He had to deal with his Genoa sail swimming under the boat?s hull[船体] to cut free a jammed spinnaker sheet[顺风帆操控索]. Poor weather and the onset[进攻] of winter forced him to go through the Panama Canal rather than sail around Cape Horn, on the southerly tip of South America. Perham said he never doubted he would complete the trip, but he did have moments when he questioned what he was doing. “But you push on and you handle it,” he told BBC. “I knew exactly what I was letting myself in for[令自己处于某种境地] in terms of being on my own, but its definitely the hardest bit of the trip being on your own, because there is nobody to help you and you do miss the physical contact.” The previous youngest to complete a similar voyage was American Zac Sunderland in July this year, but his effort is not recognized by Guinness World Records. Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, de