Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
This circumnavigation was completed on 26 July 2016. Michael Smith, November 2015, first solo circumnavigation in a single-engine flying boat [69] in Progressive Aerodyne SeaRey two-seater light sport aircraft [70] Fyodor Konyukhov, 23 July 2016, broke the record for the
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.
IDEC 3, current outright record holder at 40 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds.. The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world can be attributed to the surviving crew of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, including the last captain Juan Sebastián Elcano who completed their journey in 1522.
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]
With a crew reduced to six people, IDEC Sport presents itself as a challenger to beat the Jules-Verne Trophy, [13] owned by Loïck Peyron since 2011 in 45 days, 13 hours, 42 minutes and 53 seconds. After an attempt in November 2016, with unfavorable weather in the doldrums and the South Atlantic, and a shock that slightly damaged her fin, Joyon ...
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 ...
During her circumnavigation, she set records for the fastest solo voyage to the equator, past the Cape of Good Hope, past Cape Horn and back to the equator again. She crossed the finishing line near the French coast at Ushant at 22:29 UTC on 7 February 2005 beating the previous record set by French sailor Francis Joyon by 1 day, 8 hours, 35 ...