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Global Challenge — 65Unreferenced|date=November 2006The Global Challenge (not to be confused with Global Challenge Award) is a round the world yacht race run by Challenge Business, the company started by Sir Chay Blyth in 1989. Held every four years, it takes a… … Wikipedia
Single-handed sailing — The sport of single handed sailing is sailing with only one crewmember (ie. only one person on board the vessel). The term is usually used with reference to ocean and long distance sailing, and particularly competitive sailing. Terminology In… … Wikipedia
List of circumnavigations — Global maritime * Ferdinand Magellan, 1511 ndash;1521 (multiple voyages). In 1511 he visited the Moluccas (3°9′S 129°23′E). He returned to Portugal and set out in 1519 to circumnavigate the globe, while in the service of the Spanish crown. He… … Wikipedia
Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz — (born 15 july 1936 of Poland was the first woman to sail single handed (ie. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum. [ [http://www.joshuaslocumsocietyintl.org/solo/solotable.htm List Of Solo Circumnavigators ] , from … Wikipedia
Shane Acton — was a sailor, known for circumnavigating the globe in an convert|18|ft|m|sing=on boat. 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… … Wikipedia
Mike Golding — (born 27 August 1960 educated at Reading Blue Coat School) is an English yachtsman. He is one of the few yachtsmen to have raced round the world non stop in both directions. He held the solo record for sailing round the world westabout (the most… … Wikipedia
Dee Caffari — Denise Dee Caffari MBE (born in 1973) is a British sailor, and in 2006 became the first woman to sail single handedly and non stop around the world the wrong way ; westward against the prevailing winds and currents.[1] In February 2009, Caffari… … Wikipedia
Valiant 40 sailboat — The Valiant 40 sailboat is an aft cockpit double ender, or canoe stern, cutter rigged monohull designed by naval architect Robert Perry in 1973(?) near Seattle, Washington, USA. The Valiant 40 design was considered revolutionary at the time it… … Wikipedia
Dodge Morgan — (photograph from the Portland Press Herald) Born January 15, 1932(1932 01 15) Malden, Massachusetts Died … Wikipedia
Miles and Beryl Smeeton — Miles Smeeton and Beryl Smeeton were a pioneering couple of cruising sailors, recipients of numerous sailing awards, prolific authors, and founders of the Cochrane Ecological Institute, a Canadian non profit responsible for successfully… … Wikipedia
