- that
endurance sailing was for him, and in 1970–1971 he made the
first westabout single-handed non-stop cir****navigation via the
great capes, i.e., against...
-
achievements in single-handed
sailing and set the
current world-record for the
westabout cir****navigation (he
holds the
overall record, i.e.
although he sailed...
- girlfriend, Iris Derungs, a
photographer from Switzerland. He
sailed westabout through the
Panama Canal,
circling the
globe and
returning to England...
-
proposed (in 2008) was £28,750. It was
unique in that the race took the
westabout route around the
world against prevailing winds and
currents –
often referred...
- into
Plymouth having completed the
second cir****navigation of the world,
westabout,
begun in 1577.
Severe outbreak of
smallpox in Venezuela: it
strikes the...
- both directions. He held the solo
record for
sailing round the
world westabout (the most
challenging direction for cir****navigation)
between 1994 and...
- also 2001. Dee Caffari;
first female to sail non-stop
round the
world westabout and both ways; 2005–2006;
first woman to
perform a solo
westward non-stop...
-
importance was a solo "wrong way" race
completed in the
Southern Ocean on a
Westabout course,
sailing into the
prevailing winds,
using a factory-stock V-40...
-
Thames in
England after a 3-year
voyage from Victoria,
British Columbia,
westabout.
September 7 –
British expedition to Tibet: The
Dalai Lama
signs the Anglo-Tibetan...
- the
course of 723 days.
Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz
carried out her
westabout (east to west)
voyage on Mazurek, a
Conrad 32
sloop built in Poland. Mazurek...
