Yacht racing defines a world circumnavigation to be a passage of at least 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km)

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Yacht racing defines a world circumnavigation to be a passage of at least 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km) in length which crosses the equator, crosses every meridian and finishes in the same port as it starts

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Here we go, oldest man to circle the globe(quickly), KIWI SPIRIT was launched.
- Good on him. I hope I'm doing crazy sh*t like this at 76.
- Funny.. in their particulars...
  - Single handing underway is the easy part
    - It is easy, as long as nothing goes wrong.
  - reasonable
    - Fascinating(to me) to put their man hours up for the public.
- Saw Rich WIlson last spring, oldest man to have done a Vendee Globe.
- Big boat, big world..
  - Yacht racing defines a world circumnavigation to be a passage of at least 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km)
    - You guys are sharp, and the correction has been made.

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