HAMPSHIRE yachtsman Geoff Holt will be hoping to get his mission to sail around Britain back on course after calling into port over a wet and windy few days.

After sailing from Hartlepool, Geoff, who is hoping to be the first disabled person to sail around Britain, took cover in seaside town Bridlington on Saturday.

"What set out as a potentially mundane passage, was to become one of the fastest, longest, tiring and most exhilarating of the trip so far," he said.

"With Whitby to my south-east and the wind blowing 15 knots from the west and off the land, it was near perfect Challenger sailing conditions, calm flat seas with a stiff following breeze, Freethinker was flying."

Geoff, who is paralysed from the chest down as the result of a swimming accident when he was 18, left Southampton in May, but his progress has been greatly hampered by the bad weather this summer and he has spent a lot of time weather-bound in various ports.

Now more than half way round, Geoff is hoping for some good weather and a speedy voyage down the east coast and back to the Solent.