Home sought for 13 year trip boat

Adventurer Jason Lewis is seeking a permanent home for the pedal boat, which carried him thousands of miles during his 13-year round-the-world trip.

Mr. Lewis, from Askerswell, Dorset, used only human power to become the first to circle the globe on human power alone. He battled robbers, dodged pirates and crocodiles and survived a car crash in the US, which broke both his legs. The 40-year-old said he did not want to see the £26,000 Devon-built craft Moksha ending up hidden away in a shed. Mr. Lewis has been talking to a number of maritime museums around the country, but would ideally like to see the boat - built at the now closed Exeter Maritime Museum - settled somewhere in the South West.
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