This Rolex Made the First Solo, Nonstop Sail Around the World

SHARE THIS ARTICLE Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Originally published by Jason Heaton on Hodinkee. I am a bit busy at the moment,” the e-mail began, “finishing off a book…hauling out my boat for some work tomorrow…and then re-launching [it] on Friday Saturday I am preparing to sail to Falmouth for the 50th anniversary of my departure in the Golden Globe On Tuesday I sail” These were not your typical excuses for a tardy e-mail response, but then again this e-mail was from none other than Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, so I was willing to cut him some slack.

In 1969, Knox-Johnston became the first person to sail single-handedly around the world without stopping He completed his record-setting, 312-day circumnavigation in April of that year, only three months before another team of voyagers set sail for a different round trip into the unknown The Apollo 11 Moon landing had the full weight of the NASA. Source