Windsurf Europe

Windsurf Round Europe

Between 2017 and 2019 Jono became the only person to have windsurfed the coastline of Europe, and in so doing set the Guinness Record for the World's Longest Windsurf Journey. Gale force winds, towering waves and fearsome currents tested him and his craft to their limits. On the sea he could not have been more alone, but on land he found the best of humanity. Expedition website.

Read the book! An Amazon (affiliate) link to In The Balance.

Photos A Facebook album with photographs from the journey.

Windsurf Britain

Windsurf Round Britain

In 2015 Jono  become the first person to solo windsurf around Britain. He carried his gear inside a small watertight barrel. At night he would return to shore. Sometimes he slept under his sail. Other times kind folk would help him out. He feared for his life and endured mental torment; but also sensed gratitude, joy, and liberation. Expedition website.

Read the book! An Amazon (affiliate) link to Long Standing Ambition. Also available in Spanish and as an audiobook.

Photos A Flickr album with the photographs from the book.

Books

Books

Long Standing Ambition (versión en español disponible)

Long Standing Ambition is an autobiographical account of Jono's Windsurf Round Britain. The book is was selected as a finalist for the Amazon Storyteller award.
(Amazon affiliate link below, or buy at Stanfords independent book store.)

In The Balance

In the Balance tells of the Seas of Europe and Jono's voyage through them.
(Amazon affiliate link below, Waterstones link here.)

Profile

Profile

Jonathan Dunnett almost became a psychologist, was for a long time a windsurfing instructor, was briefly a telephone pole replacement co-ordinator, and spent a good few years lost - during which time he nearly became an electrician. He now adventures, and writes. He funds his modest needs by working on websites. At the time of writing he also works on a mental health programme that encourages walking and talking. He is better at the former.

He was born in London in 1974 and progressed through school, university and adult life - failing, like many of us, to find his niche. He struggled, but was good at hiding that.

He'd long wanted to windsurf around Britain, and had hidden that too.

Jono had a "rough patch" and probably ended up depressed. Life was failed relationships, career nothingness, inability to find pleasure in anything, lack of enthusiasm for any of the standard pathways that life seemed to offer. "You can get drugs for that" people told him "Go see a doctor!"

Instead he windsurfed round Britain and at last learned to be comfortable in his own skin. He'd cast off his worries about not particularly fitting in, which of course made him fit in better. There were other changes too.

For the first time in his life he had something to say - a story to tell. He started writing. More insights followed, including the realization that he'd rather pointlessly spent most of his life grappling with social anxiety.

The next jump was easier. Not the easy option, a number of those he'd decided to let pass by. Once the seed of the idea to windsurf round Europe had been sown, and feasibility established, there really was no option at all.

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