To find answers I sought out the experts of the Circumnavigators Club.
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The certified circumnavigators gathered in May at the Penn Club in Midtown Manhattan.
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She is also the former president of the Naples chapter of the Circumnavigators Club.
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At least that was how the experienced travelers of the Circumnavigators Club explained it to me.
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But, as we sat down in the parlor of the Explorers Club in early December following toasts from fellow Circumnavigators, the smoke wafting up from the candles on Charlie's cake — his birthday was Nov.
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This urge to count, to tick off boxes and keep track, seemed part of what drove the members of the Circumnavigators Club: like philatelists or numismatists adding to their collections, but instead of stamps or coins, their quarry consisted of canceled visas and ticket stubs, digital photographs on camelback or yellowed Polaroids of themselves standing in the prows of ships.
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Circumnavigators circumstantiate their comings and goings in a magazine, The Log, which does some things in a circumlocutory way.
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The Circumnavigators, by Don Holm; Chapter 15. The first person to successfully circumnavigate the world single-handed via Cape Horn was Argentinian Vito Dumas, who made the voyage in 1942 in his ketch Lehg II; a number of other sailors have since followed him,List Of Solo Circumnavigators, from the Joshua Slocum Society International. Retrieved February 12, 2006. including Webb Chiles aboard "" who in December 1975 rounded Cape Horn single- handed.
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The Circumnavigators , by Don Holm; Around the Three Capes. Prentice-Hall, NY, 1974. Retrieved February 5, 2006.North America and the Cape Horn Route , by Captain Harold D. Huycke; from Caphorniers Chile. Retrieved February 5, 2006.
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Roosa's memberships include the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, New York Safari Club, Board of Directors, People-to-People Sports Committee, Hunting Hall of Fame, Circumnavigators Club, Explorers Club, Commemorative Air Force, Shikar-Safari-Club and Gulfport Yacht Club.
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Holm, Donald. The Circumnavigators: Small Boat Voyagers of Modern Times (1974, pg. 248), New York: Prentice-Hall; retrieved 7 January 2008. One of the shortcomings of the boat was that it had neither guard rails or shrouds to hold on to.
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Nankivell remained in New York until 1913. Nankivell later became a member of the New York Circumnavigators Club, which was open only to those who had circumnavigated the globe longitudinally, by land and/or sea. Other members included Ernest Hemingway and Harry Houdini.
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Louis J. Willet Scholarship. He attended Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service where he was the 1981 Circumnavigators Foundation Fellow, earning a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service. At Georgetown he served as the student representative on the Walsh School’s Executive Committee and as president of Alpha Phi Omega, the National Service Fraternity.
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Ford, a naval reservist, used the boat both for personal recreation, and for naval intelligence. The boat was later taken into US Navy service directly as USS Araner (IX-57) during World War II. At least two boats of Hanna's design have circumnavigated the world twice. Jean Gau in the Atom; and Tom Steele in the Adios. (Don Holm, The Circumnavigators page 355).
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They lost one day because they traveled west during their circumnavigation of the globe, in the same direction as the apparent motion of the sun across the sky. Although the Arab geographer Abu'l-Fida (1273–1331) had predicted that circumnavigators would accumulate a one-day offset, Cardinal Gasparo Contarini was the first European to give a correct explanation of the discrepancy.
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On May 6, 1929, he finally sailed for home, stopping at the Azores, and on July 21 he sailed into Cherbourg harbor. He received another hero's welcome for his circumnavigation, the third single-handed circumnavigation of the world,List Of Solo Circumnavigators, from the Joshua Slocum Society International during which he had spent 700 days at sea and covered more than 40,000 miles.
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Gerbault died on December 16, 1941, in Dili, East Timor of a tropical fever. His death was not widely reported until August 22, 1944, over three years later. A later report suggests that he had been imprisoned by the Japanese.The Circumnavigators — Chapter 16 , by Don Holm In 1947, his body was recovered and buried on Bora Bora, where a monument to him was erected.
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He was an avid traveler and a member of the Explorers Club, the Circumnavigators Club, and the Archaeological Institute of America. Edward was married to his first wife Virginia, and they had one child, Edward Keonjian, Jr. in 1937. He moved to Green Valley in 1993 from Great Neck, New York with his third wife Maria. In 1997 he chronicled his life story in his autobiography, Survived to Tell.
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Alain Gerbault was born on November 17, 1893, in Laval, Mayenne, to an upper-middle- class family. He spent much of his youth in Dinard, near the ancient port of St. Malo; he spent his summers playing tennis and football, as well as hunting and fishing. At college he studied civil engineering.The Circumnavigators — Chapter 8 , by Don Holm He had a brother with whom they owned a lime factory in Laval.
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The Order of Magellan is an honor bestowed on distinguished individuals who have circumnavigated the earth and who, to the course of their career, have contributed to the world of science or the environment or future progress through peace and understanding. Among the pantheon of winners of this award are Douglas MacArthur, philanthropist and mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, ethnographer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, Dr. William Walsh, who started Project Hope, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist Dr. Robert Ballard, oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and astronaut and United States Senator John Glenn. The Magellan Award is the highest award bestowed by the Circumnavigators Club,The Circumnavigators Club founded in 1902. The honor is named after the Portuguese born explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, who is widely known as the first captain to sail around the world—though he didn't complete the circumnavigation as he died during the voyage in the Philippines, that being the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who took over command of the expedition after Magellan's death, and completed the trip.
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While the classic looks of the rig is considered attractive, it is less efficient than a ketch, and is rarely seen on modern yachts. Yawls were built for yacht racing in the 1950s and 1960s because of a handicapping loophole where boats were not penalized for having a mizzen sail. The design became popular with single- handed circumnavigators like Francis Chichester and Joshua Slocum because the sail-plan was advantageous sailing downwind and helped keep the boat on course, although the latter function is today better performed by modern autopilot systems.
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By January 1968, word of all these competing plans was spreading. The Sunday Times, which had profited to an unexpected extent from its sponsorship of Chichester, wanted to get involved with the first non-stop circumnavigation, but had the problem of selecting the sailor most likely to succeed. King and Ridgway, two likely candidates, already had sponsorship, and there were several other strong candidates preparing. "Tahiti" Bill Howell, an Australian cruising sailor, had made a good performance in the 1964 OSTAR, Moitessier was also considered a strong contender, and there may have been other potential circumnavigators already making preparations.
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Hunter 28.5 sailboat A pocket cruiser is a sailboat designed for recreational cruising and club racing, under in length. Like the similar and usually smaller trailer sailer they have design features to make it possible to tow them with passenger vehicles, such as light weight, and short ballasted retractable shoal draft keels. Being cruisers, they also include amenities that provide the comfort of larger boats, such as a cabin, with berths, a galley, a head, and cockpit. Properly equipped, these style boats are capable of long offshore passages, as proven by circumnavigators Eric and Susan Hiscock, Lin and Larry Pardey, and Tania Aebi, among others.
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He was chairman of USA for UNHCR from 2003-2006 and participated in U.N. missions to Afghanistan, Kosovo and Tanzania. In addition to the Board of the U.S. African Development Foundation, Leslie also served on the Advisory Board of the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF). He is chairman of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid of the U.S. Agency for International Development (ACVFA), a member of the Board of Advisors of the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ron Brown Scholar Program (RBSP). He is also on the board of the Circumnavigators Foundation, an organization that provides scholarships for study abroad.
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Gerry Hughes is a British sailor who became the first profoundly deaf man to sail single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean. He crossed the finishing line off Castle Hill, Newport at 11:30 am local time (4:30 pm UTC) on Saturday 3 July 2005 after 35 days of sailing. Hughes also became the world's first deaf yachtsman to sail single-handed around the world to pass the five great capes. He departed Troon, Scotland on 1 September 2012 and returned to Troon on 8 May 2013. Dr Hughes was added as number 201 on Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s list of elite solo circumnavigators \- In 2019 Gerry Hughes published a book about his life called 'Bridging Our Differences'.
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British Steel was designed by Devon-based naval architect Robert Clark, and built in 1970 by Phillip and Son, at Noss, on the River Dart. Launched on 19 August of that year, after a record build time of four months, British Steel was described by Don Holme in his book, "The Circumnavigators", as representing the absolute pinnacle of modern yacht design and construction at the time, particularly with regard to the use of steel in the building of her hull. It was primarily for this reason, when approached by the erstwhile adventurer and "publicity-yachtist" Chay Blyth, then state-owned British Steel Corporation (later Corus) agreed to sponsor his plan. Purpose-built to achieve what was widely regarded as impossible, the design and construction of British Steel cost £20,000.
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Kothari demolished his house on Clifton Hill in 1907, and at that site he built a magnificent pavilion, parade and pier, which he bequeathed to the people of Karachi to enjoy. Inspired by this generosity, Kavasji Hormusji Katrak built and gave to the people of Karachi the grand bandstand which looms over the cliff., Retrieved 30 July 2016 He also established a school for the blind and sanatorium in Karachi around this time. Kothari was awarded the gold Kaisar-i-Hind Medal (first class) on the occasion of the Delhi Durbar to commemorate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911. He enjoyed sailing and was a member of the Ripon Club and Willingdon Sports Club of Bombay, the Zoroastrian Club and Parsi Institute of Karachi, founding member of the Lloyd’s Polo Club of Poona and member of the Circumnavigators Club.
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The Circumnavigators Club was founded in New York NY in 1902. Kothari contributed to World War I by investing 2,550,000 rupees or £175,000 in the Third War Loan raised in January 1917, and acting as honorary secretary and treasurer in India for the Imperial War Fund. He performed numerous other honorary duties for the British Government for which he maintained a large staff at his own expense. Kothari was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1918 Birthday Honours,London Gazette, Issue 30730, Supplement, 4 June 1918, page 6717a and subsequently knighted in the 1921 Birthday Honours,London Gazette, Issue 32461, 20 September 1921, page 7382b which was conferred at Buckingham Palace by King George V on 8 July 1922.London Gazette, Issue 32730, 18 July 1922, page 5354a Kothari and his wife Goolbai visited Bangalore during a trip around South India in 1923.
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