Take a sqizz at this mad Swede as he attempts a
Circumnavigation in a 10ft boat? 
Swedish adventurer to try for new record for smallest boat to sail solo around the world
A Swedish sailor, adventurer, philosopher and writer is looking to sail solo, non-stop around the world in a 3.048m (10 foot) sailing boat. That's smaller than a laser! Sven Yrvind is currently building the odd-looking vessek at his home in Sweden and will embark on his trip when it's complete, leaving from the southernmost tip of Ireland. From there he'll sail south, around the Cape of Good Hope, past Australia in the Southern Ocean on his way to Cape Horn, back in to the Atlantic and home. He reckons his epic voyage will take about a year and a half. He says that he'll pass the time, strapped to his bed when it gets rough, reading books and writing. And if you think he's just a nutcase who won't make it, think of this: on his last voyage he took the title of the smallest sailing boat to round Cape Horn in his 'big' 20-footer -- and he did it against the prevailing wind and waves. Yrvind started to build his 20-footer in his mother's cellar, the door of which determined the vessel's beam: a mere 5ft 8in. He partially financed the trip with the help of an interesting 'entrepreneur'. Yrvind takes up the story from his blog: "This time I planned to sail by way of Cape Horn against wind and waves into the Pacific. Not many believed in me, one practical man less than the others. He was an entrepreneur interested in sailing. "One day he had knocked on the cellar door shown interest in my project, he had come back few times and given me help and advises [sic]; a nice person. One day he suggested a deal. He would give me a thousand dollars. All I had to do was to go sailing. He would, with my permission take out a life insurance of twenty thousand dollars on me in his name. I accepted eagerly. What could I lose? We went to a doctor and got a health certificate, then to the insurance company and singed papers. That was all.
"A windy day with a cold northerly day I left Sweden. Among the people who waved was my friend the entrepreneur." Yrvind, 73, says he has been sailing small boats for over 50 years. His first boat, based on a 15ft open boat, he lived on for years starting when he modified it in 1962. Since then, he has been designing and building small sailing vessels culminating in this diminutive craft.
http://www.boatsales.com.au/news/circumnavigation-in-a-10ft-boat-44152
