Career
He first set sail from Britain at the age of 25, in 1972. Raised in Cambridge, England without any sailing experience he departed in a used 18" 4" bilge-keel sailing boat for which he paid the modest sum of £400. The boat was a "Caprice", a Robert Tucker design originally named "Super Shrimp" but referred to by Shane simply as "Shrimpy".
Later Shane was accompanied for much of the voyage by his girlfriend, a photographer from Switzerland, Iris Derungs.
He sailed westabout through the Panama Canal, circling the globe and returning to England as a local celebrity eight years later. The voyage is chronicled in his book Shrimpy: A Record Round-the-World Voyage in an Eighteen Foot Yacht.
In 1984 he set off on a second voyage. He lived his later years near Golfito, Costa Rica, and died of lung cancer on February 25, 2002 at the age of 55 in Cambridge, England.