GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD the sixty Five year Old Navigator's own account of His 226 Day Lone Voyage Including the Conquest of Cape Horn

GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD the sixty Five year Old Navigator's own account of His 226 Day Lone Voyage Including the Conquest of Cape Horn by Sir Francis Chichester. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780340004845.

This work tells the story of Frances Chichester, who aged 65, set out alone from Plymouth in his 53-foot ketch "Gypsy Moth VI" in August 1966 and sailed eastward around the world through the wild Southern Ocean, stopping only once - the first to accomplish this - in Sydney. Only nine yachts had previously circumnavigated by way of Cape Horn, and of them six had been capsized or somersaulted at least once. This 28,000-mile voyage, completed in May 1967, established new records for speed and endurance, captured the imagination of the world, and earned a knighthood for Chichester upon his return.