A quadriplegic woman sailor set off on a solo jour-ney around the British Isles June 16, 2008 in a boat she controls with her breath.

一位四肢痲痺的女船手6月16日用她的呼吸控制一艘風帆，將獨自繞英倫三島環行一周。

Hilary Lister, 36, set sail alone in her boat from Dover on the southeast coast of England, steering her specially adapted yacht by blowing and sucking on straws to adjust the sails and tiller.

36歲的希拉蕊．李斯特從英格蘭東南部的多佛起航，將駕駛她那艘經過特別改裝的遊艇，藉著對吸管吹氣和吸氣來調整風帆和掌舵。

She had planned to leave a week ago, but malfunc-tioning electronics and a broken mast delayed her launch. As she set sail, Lister said she was feeling confi-dent. "We've broken everything that can be broken and everything that could have gone wrong has gone wrong, so we've got to be OK now," she told journalists.

她原訂一周前出發，但因電子儀器故障及一根桅杆斷裂而延後出航。當出發那天，李斯特說，她很有信心。她告訴記者：「一切能損壞的都壞過了，一切會出錯的也都先出錯了，這下應該一切ＯＫ了。」

Lister will sail about 18 hours a day and will come into shore every night. An inflatable boat will sail a-longside her and a crew will provide support on land. She expects the journey to take around three months.

李斯特每天航行18小時，每晚靠岸休息。一艘充氣艇會伴著她航行，並有一組人在陸地上提供她支援。她預期將花三個月完成整個行程。

Lister, who is paralyzed from the neck down, has already broken sailing records. In August 2005 she be-came the first quadriplegic to sail solo across the Eng-lish Channel. She was diagnosed as a teenager with reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a degenerative disease, and took up sailing in 2003 as a way to boost her self confidence. Her latest project will raise money for her sailing charity.

李斯特從脖子以下全身癱瘓，她已經創下數項航行紀錄。2005年8月，她是第一位獨自橫渡英倫海峽的四肢痲痺患者。她在青少女時就被診斷罹患一種退化性疾病「反射性交感神經失養症」，但她在2003年開始航行，以提升自信。她最近這項航行創舉是要為她的航行慈善機構募款。