Poland's Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz set off to sail around the world by the trade-wind route in 1976, and on her return to the Canary Islands in 1978 became the first woman to perform a single-handed circumnavigation (with stops). Hughes travel around the world solo, sailed 32,000 miles and became the first deaf yachtsman to passed all five southernmost capes. With her record-breaking solo round-the-world voyage, she has secured her place as a sporting superstar. A 77-year-old British woman has become the oldest person to sail around the world alone, non-stop, and unassisted. It's an amazing feeling to become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop both ways around the world. First woman to sail solo non-stop around the world comes home. He set sail in 1895, and returned more than 3 years later in 1898. June 5, 2018 — 10.30am . Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size. wikipedia says: "The major women's firsts were achieved in just over ten years. By Malcolm Brown. But my yacht is capable of sailing almost any where in the world. Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur DBE (born 8 July 1976) is a retired English sailor, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, Isle of Wight.. MacArthur is a successful solo long-distance yachtswoman.On 7 February 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat which gained her international renown. On 1 September 2012, Hughes left Troon, Scotland to start his eight-month journey across the world. She had become the first woman to sail solo around the globe via the dangerous and classic Cape Horn route taken by the great clippers of yesteryear. Jeanne Socrates, from Lymington, … My solo sailing (my yacht Levitation is below) has been on the east coast of Australia from the Gold Coast up to and around the Whitsundays Islands off Airlie Beach. The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world was Juan Sebastián Elcano and the remaining members of Ferdinand Magellan's crew who completed their journey in 1522. The idea of sailing round the world came to her when New Zealand's Naomi (now Dame Naomi) James was forced to stop on her 1978 attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Using the yacht, her first significant record attempt in 2004 to break the west–east transatlantic crossing time failed by around one and a quarter hours, after over seven days of sailing. Asked in History of Maritime, Sailing Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail solo around the world in ? Now Ellen MacArthur has eclipsed that all … Women sailing are more numerous than you might think - and our numbers are growing. She beat the previous record by one day, eight hours, 35 minutes and 49 seconds. When 26-year-old Ellen Macarthur became the fastest woman to sail around the world, it was the culmination of years of hard work and determination. Gerry Hughes; 2012–2013; first deaf yachtsman to sail single-handed around the world to pass the five great capes. Samantha Brewster, 29, glided into Southampton yesterday in her 67-ft yacht after becoming the first woman to sail solo around the world the "wrong" way - from east to west. Erika sailing a solo Sunday cruise in the fjords of beautiful winterly Norway. Dame Ellen MacArthur “Courage is not having the energy to go on, it’s going on when you do not have the energy.” Dame Ellen MacArthur broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, completing the 27,354 nautical mile trip in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds. Ellen MacArthur: 'I can't live with the sea any more' The round the world record holder explains why she has turned her back on the sea to crusade for the planet. So why is Britain still ambivalent about Ellen MacArthur? She became the first woman to sail solo nonstop around the world from North America and the oldest woman to sail solo nonstop around the world (a record noted in the Guinness Book of Records). The first solo record was set by Joshua Slocum in the Spray (1898).. She began her attempt to break the solo record for sailing non-stop around the world on 28 November 2004. My goal was to set the double world first and Aviva and I have done it.