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A combination of boat, airplane, and trains [14] [15] John Henry Mears: 23 days 15 hours 21 minutes and 3 seconds 1928 1928 [16] Hugo Eckener: 21 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes 8 August 1929 29 August 1929 First circumnavigation in an airship, aboard LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin from Lakehurst, New Jersey [17] [18] Pilot Wiley Post and navigator Harold Gatty
Also the second fastest outright circumnavigation time. 2016 49d 3h 7m 38s Thomas Coville (FRA) Sodebo Ultim (formerly Geronimo) Trimaran 102 ft Arrived on 25 December 2016, non-stop. Also the sixth fastest outright circumnavigation time. 2008 57d 13h 34m 06s Francis Joyon (FRA) IDEC 2: Trimaran 97 ft Arrived on 19 January 2008, non-stop. 2005
The Jules Verne Trophy's starting point is defined by an imaginary line between the Créac'h lighthouse on Ouessant Island, France, and the Lizard Lighthouse, UK.The boats have to circumnavigate the world leaving the capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and Horn to port and cross the starting line in the opposite direction.
Fyodor Konyukhov, 23 July 2016, broke the record for the fastest circumnavigation in a hot air balloon. He took "just over 11 days", breaking Steve Fossett's 2002 record of 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 days. [71] Peter Wilson and Matthew Gallagher; 7 August 2017; First circumnavigation by helicopter through antipodes. [72] [73]
As of 2022, the fastest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica with a time of 92 days, 18 hours, and 21 minutes. [10] As of April 2024, the first women, and fastest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted from Sydney to Auckland with a time of 8 days, 3 hours and 19 minutes. [28] [29]
On 20 March 2010, she became the fastest boat to sail around the world and set a record of 48 days, 7 hours 44 minutes and 52 seconds, improving on Orange II's performance from 2005 by more than 2 days. [6] She lost the record on 7 January 2012, to Banque Populaire V, a larger trimaran. [7]
Balanced on the side of one hull, New Zealand’s black catamaran glides over the finish line at the deep-water Zayed Port, its 29-meter-long carbon fiber wing stiff in the sea breeze. Just meters ...
Her time along the clipper route of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, and 33 seconds was the fastest ever circumnavigation of the world by a single-hander. [21] While this record still leaves MacArthur as the fastest female singlehanded circumnavigator, in 2008, Francis Joyon eclipsed the record in a trimaran with a time of 57 days, 13 hours, 34 ...