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A yachtsman from Southampton that was paralysed as the result of a spinal injury is set to complete a 2,700-mile boat journey today (January 7th).

Geoff Holt, started his voyage in Lanzarote and will finish today in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, where he sustained his spinal injury in a diving accident 25 years ago.

The 42-year-old began the challenge on December 10th 2009 in a 60ft specially adapted catamaran called Impossible Dream.

When he completes the trip today he will become the first quadriplegic to make the journey without any assistance in any aspect of the sailing.

In his blog today Mr Holt writes: "I want my arrival to be a celebration of the past 25 years not, as … closure."

He said he does not regret the years since his accident and said that, without it, he would not have met his wife Elaine or had his son Timothy.

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