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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 held fastest circumnavigation by microlight until broken. Bodill was part of an entourage of 4 aircraft, one of which carried supplies and support. [58] Steve Fossett, 2 July 2002, first solo balloon circumnavigation. Matevž Lenarčič; 2004; Circumnavigation with microlight aircraft Pipistrel".
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Blair was 25 years old when she got a job as a hostess on a boat in the Whitsundays. [1] She completed her first ocean passage as a crew member delivering a yacht to Hawaii in 2008. [ 1 ] In 2011 she crewed in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race as a watch leader, bowman, rigger and helmsman. [ 1 ]
Fastest circumnavigation of the globe by human power—5 years, 11 days, 12 hours, and 22 minutes [54] First to row all three major oceans—Pacific, Indian and Atlantic [ 6 ] Greatest distance rowed solo on the ocean—23,473 nautical miles (43,472 km; 27,012 mi) [ 55 ] (total distance includes all segments of the solo circumnavigation and the ...