Round the World..

[Polux]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

E-W would be pretty easy... only hard bit I can see would be the Horn.... for the rest just do the ocean passages in the trades.

Once you sort the vittling issues biggest hurdle would be making sure you didn't go 'the full Crowhurst'.

It would be easy if they were not trying to beat a circumnavigation record, as it is the case the way to go is to go as South of possible without getting an iceberg on the way and on that latitude the storms come one after the other and they use them to sail faster. The Horn is not the worst part, all the Southern Ocean, including Indian and Pacific are as bad:

[Polux]

Originally Posted by boatman61

I stand corrected.. I have found 2, Samantha Brewster, Wilfried Erdmann and a possible 3rd.. John Sanders with 2 continuous E and what sounds like an about face to do a West about..

LIST OF SOLO CIRCUMNAVIGATORS
http://members.shaw.ca/taonui/nonstopsailors.doc.pdf

Samantha Brewster sailed solo but was assisted, John Sanders, not diminishing is feat, has not his circumnavigations recognized for record certification since he sailed only on Southern waters, not making the necessary number of nautical miles per circumnavigation.

It seems that at the time Wilfried Erdmann was the fifth solo sailor to do a world-wide circumnavigation in the east-west direction but I don't know the others, except the ones that had the record before Jean Luc Van Den Heede, curiously on boats not maximized for upwind sailing, an old IMOCA boat, first the record belonged to Mike Golding (UK) and after to Philippe Monet (FR).

Now with that French I had talked about, with a smaller boat, they are more having done that solo and without assistance.