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Originally Posted by boatman61
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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.