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Barrington Irving, 27 June 2007, Inspiration, youngest solo circumnavigation in an airplane, at that time, 23 years, 228 days; left Miami, Florida, 23 March 2007, first stop, Cleveland, Ohio. (record broken numerous times subsequently) Rahul Monga and Anil Kumar, 2007, fastest circumnavigation in a microlight, 79 days.
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 Trophy, displayed at the National Maritime Museum, Paris. The Jules Verne Trophy is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht with no restrictions on the size of the crew provided the vessel has registered with the organization and paid an entry fee. [1]
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 ...
In 2010 the boat was stationed in Brest, awaiting a weather opening to beat the Jules Verne Trophy record (circumnavigation of the world), held since 2010 by Franck Cammas and the multihull Groupama 3. The first such attempt started on January 22, 2011, but she hit some debris in the Southern Atlantic and was forced to retire on February 4.
The Antarctica Cup Yacht Race is an annual non-stop race of about 14,000 nautical miles which circumnavigates Antarctica. [1]The course starts and ends at Albany, Western Australia, a historic port 150 nautical miles east of Cape Leeuwin.
In March 1967, a 28-year-old British merchant marine officer, Robin Knox-Johnston, realised that a non-stop solo circumnavigation was "about all there's left to do now".". Knox-Johnston had a 32 foot (9.8 m) wooden ketch, Suhaili, which he and some friends had built in India to the William Atkin Eric design; two of the friends had then sailed the boat to South Africa, and in 1966 Knox-Johnston ...