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38 ft Monohull; Sailor and Boat Lost at Sea [8] Mike McMullen (GBR) Atlantic Ocean Three Cheers: Sailor and Boat Lost at Sea 1978 Route du Rhum: 16 November 1978: Alain Colas: Azores: Manureva: Unknown: 1979 Fastnet race Royal Ocean Racing Club: 14 August 1979: 15 competitors and 6 observers Celtic Sea: 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
However, the boat was presumably lost at sea near the Falkland Islands, with everybody on board perishing. [233] October 1977 Slim Wintermute: 60 Portage Bay, Washington, U.S. Wintermute, an American collegiate and professional basketball player, disappeared in October 1977, after setting out in his yacht from Portage Bay. His boat was found a ...
Although eliminated from the race after receiving help to rescue his boat after it ran aground in Perseverance Harbour at Campbell Island, New Zealand, Plant still set a record for the fastest American to sail single-handed around the world with a time of 135 days, bettering Dodge Morgan's time of 150 days set in 1985 aboard his 60-foot cutter ...
The last time I lost my boat, had I been able to beam reach, I could have shortened my drift from 1,800 miles to 450; had I been able to sail even dead downwind but increase speed to a moderate 2.5 knots, I would have been afloat 25 days rather than 76; had I been able to do both I would have sailed to safety in a mere 6 or 7 days." [5]
1997–98 Chessie Racing: Manuel Fischler Switzerland: 1989–90 Merit, 1993–94 Merit Cup: John Fisher Great Britain: 2017–18 Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag, [1] Lost at sea [9] Jonathan Fisher Great Britain: 1989–90 With Integrity: Mark Fisher Great Britain: 1989–90 With Integrity: Simon Fisher Great Britain: 2005–06 ABN Amro II: 2008 ...
Lost between Green Bay and the Niagara River. [19] HMS: Heureux: 1800: somewhere between the Caribbean and Halifax [20] Inkerman: 1918: Minesweeper built for French Navy, lost in heavy weather in Lake Superior along with Cerisoles in November 1918. [13] USS: Insurgent: 1800: somewhere in Caribbean Sea [21] Java: 1869: en route to Yokohama [22 ...
The huge luxury sailing yacht Bayesian sank during a violent storm off Sicily, leaving six people missing, including two Americans. 2 Americans, U.K. tech mogul among 6 missing after yacht sinks ...
Tony Bullimore (15 January 1939 – 31 July 2018) [1] was a British businessman and international yachtsman. During the 1996–97 Vendée Globe solo round-the-world yacht race, his vessel lost its keel and capsized in the Southern Ocean.