Solo sailor and paraplegic Jonathan Martins is on the final leg of a solo voyage that has taken him across the planet from England via Panama.

He's left Tahiti and is bound for Tauranga, a voyage of about 3500 miles which is expected to take 20-25 days, says Tauranga sailor Bruce Goodchap.

It gives Jonathan an arrival time around mid to late November.

Jonathan became famous in October 2014 when he became the first paraplegic to complete the solo voyage across the pacific from Panama – a voyage he didn't originally plan.

Jonathan was in Panama with some friends with the aim of making a documentary about rubbish.

The documentary went down the tubes, and there was more wrong with their recently purchased boat than appeared in the survey.

With stuff breaking on the boat all the time, dwindling money, he called it off, flew two of the friends home and lost his remaining crewman when family illness forced his departure.

A hitch hiker catching a ride.

A year earlier, Jonathan had sailed across the Caribbean and was in Panama, when back problems and a good offer on the boat saw him flying home.

'I'd got exactly where I was a year ago, it was just a matter of carrying on.”

The current voyage is planned, begining in England on board a Hanse 400 named Little Minx. After the Atlantic crossing he was becalmed in St Maarten with a lack of wind in June, departing before Hurricane Irma's arrival.

'Once a yachting paradise and a helluva of a drinking hole. Except for one who sailed south the last minute, everyone else I know lost their boats, and that's losing everything in life. Some I haven't even heard from yet,” says Jonathan on facebook.

His Tahitian pit stop was to repair rigging, but his water was also foul.

Little Minx in Papeete for rigging repairs.

'The first thing I did at the dock was to get a gulp of decent water. A glass of tasteless fresh water is all I will ever drink from now on, after thirty-six days of having to season (vinegar, salt, oregano and sometimes even sriracha) of every gulp, one would certainly comprehend.

'Everybody has been utterly delightful, from Constance at Marina Taina, Mateo the new local rigger to all the officials at Customs and Immigration, which gave me the sweats last time around.”

Jonathan Martins has been paraplegic since a skydiving accident in 2012. He explains why he sails on his webpage, where he can also be contacted.

The rising sun off the starboard bow.