to sail solo round the world.

Miss Page, a sailing teacher from Florida, had to abandon her first attempt last week when she ran aground on rocks near Sonesta beach.

She will leave the Island on Sunday with whatever can be salvaged from the wreck of her 35-foot sloop, Sparrow .

Then she will start work once more, hoping to pay off her debts from the voyage and buy another craft.

Miss Page, 41, was just two weeks into her voyage when disaster struck.

Wearied and hurt by a battle with Hurricane Frances, she decided to head for Bermuda for repairs and treatment.

But she fell into an exhausted sleep, failed to hear her alarm, and hit the rocks.

She had to swim to safety as waves began smashing her $100,000 boat to pieces.

Insurers had refused to cover the vessel.

Miss Page said yesterday: "I feel better now, I'm much more rested.

"We were able to recover some personal clothes, winches, the auto-pilot, sails, cans of food and a boot. And I got my guitar back intact.

"We pulled the mast out this morning, and we're going to try to pull the boat around to the shore on Saturday and chop it up for scrap.

"Then I've got to get back to work and start earning some money again, she said. "Every piece of gear I'm pulling off the boat is with view to using it again.'' Miss Page said she had learned a lesson from her ordeal. "I do have a fatigue limit, and I didn't realise that.

"My body has always done what I asked it to do, and this time it didn't.'' Her experience in the hurricane had confirmed what she knew as a sailor -- that in such a storm she should stay with her boat and ride it out, not take to a life raft.

But two things were still puzzling her, she added. One was how her boat, which had a draft of seven feet, managed to get through the outer reef as she slept.

She thinks it must have found a gap.

The other problem is what happened to a yellow bag containing a sail, which was seen on the rocks after she ran aground.

BIRD OF HOPE -- Boater Mr. Royle Kemp yesterday presented yachtswoman Miss Anita Page with a cedar longtail he made. Miss Page, who was wrecked last week, hopes to re-launch her round-the-world voyage. "You might even name your next boat Longtail , and it might get you there,'' Mr. Kemp told her.