Gone is the idea of skippers disappearing over the horizon and then finishing hundreds, if not thousands, of miles apart, having surfed entirely separate weather systems in the Southern Ocean. From ...

A Hawaiian man who lost his left arm and leg after he was hit by a drunk driver set a new world record for the first solo voyage around the world completed by a double amputee. Dustin Reynolds, who ...

Captain Bill Pinkney, the second African American man to sail around the world solo and the first via Cape Horn, has died in Atlanta at age 87, Atlanta News First reports. The Chicago native passed ...

Joshua Slocum, an indefatigable trader, entrepreneur and sailor, born in 1844 on a farm in Nova Scotia, had a patchy record as a ship’s captain. Mutinies had a way of breaking out among his crews—he ...

Ann Davison was nobody’s idea of a successful solo transoceanic sailor. In 1949 she set out from England with her husband in an old boat to cruise the world, one step ahead of their creditors. They ...

"The DeVinne Press"--Verso of t.p. A sailing memoir, first published in serial form in 1899 (The Century Magazine) about Slocum's single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. The ...