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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.