Neal Petersen’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African motavational speaker
Is Motivational speaker
From South Africa
Gender male
Birth

1967

Age 54 years

Neal Petersen is a South African solo racing yachtsman, award-winning author of Journey of a Hope Merchant, and the subject of a PBS documentary. Petersen completed a nine month single-handed yacht race around the world alone in a small yacht, which he designed and built himself. “He became the first black sailor to race solo around the world.”

Books

He has published two books: No Barriers was published in 1994. His second book, Journey of a Hope Merchant: From Apartheid to the Elite World of Solo Yacht Racing, was published in 2004. Both books deal with various aspects of his yachting career, with No Barriers concentrating on his first journey from South Africa to Europe. Journey of a Hope Merchant won the 2005 National Outdoor Book Award (History/Biography category)

Personal life

Petersen was born physically disabled and impoverished in apartheid-era South Africa, but was introduced to healing and equality in the waters surrounding Cape Town.

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