Sailing yacht Bavaria 38

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Traveling alone aboard a 35-foot yacht, a wooden ketch named Temptress, Englishman Edward Allcard crossed the Atlantic Ocean - from Europe to New York and back using only stars and a sextant, surviving on meager canned rations. , potatoes, stock cubes, and with a limited amount of water. He was chased by sharks, nearly died in a hurricane, and became an international celebrity when he arrived in Casablanca with a 23-year-old Azorean girl who wanted to go to England to become a poet.

Dongfeng Race Team won the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race on the shortest finishing route in race history. Skipper Charles Caudrelier led his team to victory in the final stage of the race, a 970 mile sprint from Gothenburg, Sweden to The Hague.