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April 11, 2013
Robin Knox-Johnston
A 3,000-strong archive of pictures, taken during Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s pioneering solo non-stop round the world voyage in 1968/9, has been discovered and saved for posterity byspecialist photo library PPL. This circa 22nd April 1969: Robin Knox-Johnston with champagne aboard his 32ft yacht SUHAILI off Falmouth, England after becoming the first man to sail solo non-stop around the globe. This was a huge feat at the time when there was no GPS or auto pilot other than a windvang. Today sailors race around the world in ultra modern and very fast carbon boats with incredible electronics, but to do this with old celestial navigation and compass is something. To this day a great feat of sailing!!!
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