I prefer sailing around the world with an all-female crew. An 81-year-old grandfather from Australia has become the oldest person to sail around the world alone without stopping. At twenty-four, Ellen MacArthur became the youngest person ever to complete the Vendée Globe singlehanded nonstop sailboat race around the planet and the second woman--and second fastest sailor--to circumnavigate the globe alone. This Day in History: Jun First solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum Joshua Slocum, the first singlehanded circumnavigator and author of the classic Sailing Alone around the World was born in Nova Scotia. ... leaving America for a life of adventure and sailed to many parts of the world. She was joined by her friends, ... Captain Clark has sailed 18,000 miles in total She often free dives to catch dinner. She left Dartmouth in Devon on 9 September 1977 and returned 272 days later on 8 June 1978. A British grandmother has become the oldest woman to sail solo around the world non-stop - at the third attempt. Taking on the World: A Sailor's Extraordinary Solo Race Around the Globe | Ellen MacArthur | ISBN: 9780071435444 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. The Isle of Wight-based yachtswoman completed the 27,000-mile voyage in 71 days and under 15 hours. Hank de Velde, in 1997, sailed a catamaran around the world—eastward—in 119 days nonstop. Jeanne Socrates – oldest woman to sail around the world solo, non-stop; Proving age is no barrier to adventure, Socrates successfully completed the 25,000-mile global journey on her third attempt. British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur finished her single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in world record time on this day in 2005. 88 . When solo sailor Ellen MacArthur circled the globe – carrying everything she needed with her – she came back with new insight into the way the world works, as a place of interlocking cycles and finite resources, where the decisions we make today affect what's left for tomorrow. In 2003, MacArthur set up the Ellen MacArthur Trust (now the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust), a registered charity, to take young people, aged between 8 and 24 inclusive, sailing to help them regain their confidence on their way to recovery from cancer, leukaemia and other serious illnesses. She sailed a trimaran B&Q/Castorama around the world in 71 days in 2005. Many in the field didn’t think women could handle the danger of sailing alone across treacherous waters. “What I did was completely different. Intrepid Jeanne Socrates, 70, … Ellen is a professional racer; I was an adventurer.” Dame Naomi James was the first woman to sail single-handed around the world via Cape Horn. Women Sailing Around the World: More Common Than You Think by Christine Couch. When solo sailor Ellen MacArthur circled the globe – carrying everything she needed with her – she came back with new insight into the way the world works, as a place of interlocking cycles and finite resources, where the decisions we make today affect what's left for tomorrow. The 28-year … To my knowledge, he is still the only person to perform this feat singlehanded on a catamaran. Despite widespread opinion that such a voyage was impossible (there was no Panama Canal then), Slocum, a retired sea captain, rebuilt a 37-foot (11 m) sloop, Spray, and sailed it around the world—the first single-handed circumnavigation of the world. At twenty-four, Ellen MacArthur became the youngest person ever to complete the Vendée Globe singlehanded nonstop sailboat race around the planet and the second woman--and second fastest sailor--to circumnavigate the globe alone. We do tend to wash, even if it was in cold, salt water. This is the current record for a single-handed woman monohull east-to-west passage, and also the record for a single-handed woman in any vessel. A new film tells the story of the first all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race: "Guys used to say to us with absolute certainty, 'You're going to … Britain's Ellen MacArthur has completed her single-handed round-the-world voyage in record-breaking time. This 34-year-old woman has sailed solo around the world for 10 years. Jeanne learned how to sail in the 1990s with her husband, but has since done solo voyages. The first woman to sail around the world alone was the Polish Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz who completed the trip via the Panama Canal in … Not bad for a sailor in her seventies. Jeanne Socrates was born in 1942, and sailed around the world, unassisted non stop from North America in 2013.

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