"Chris Newport" wrote in message
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Ellen MacArthur has smashed the world record for a solo
circumnavigation, finishing in under 71 days 13 hours.
The previous record holder Francis Joyon took 72 days 22 hours 54 mins.

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I thought Harry Krause's father had the record, and doing it in a 16 foot
rowboat with only one oar and no sails...or so I recall him claiming at one
point.