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Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844[1] – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotia

• jimmcslim 1mo ago
  And Sir Robin Knox-Johnston[1] was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world _non-stop_. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Knox-Johnston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Knox-Johnston
  • 27183 1mo ago
    And Chay Blythe was the first to do it the wrong way around (westabout).
  • jodrellblank 1mo ago
    Including the bit where he built his own boat in India with his brother to sail back to the UK, his brother didn't go, so he sailed it alone. Then he tried to get a company to sponsor a new boat for the round-the-world race and nobody did, so he took his homemade boat. Entered the Southern Ocean at roughly a third of the way around, took damage and lost all his water supplies, and had to do the rest of the race by rationing his beer cans. 1960s battery and valve radio technology failed somewhere in the Indian Ocean and he could receive but not transmit, and had to send a status update by throwing a message in a bottle to a passing ship. There's a related link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst who entered the Golden Globe race without the proper equipment, backed himself into a corner, planned to cheat to save his home, and didn't survive it.
    • HeyLaughingBoy 1mo ago
      I have a DVD somewhere about Donald Crowhurst's "attempts." I felt sorry for the poor guy, but he really should have just admitted that it was beyond him and given up.
• AdamN 1mo ago
  The book is worth a read - lots of misadventures and musings.