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Harry Pidgeon was the second person ever to sail single-handed around the world, from 1921 to 1925, twenty-three years after Joshua Slocum, aboard the 34-foot yawl, Islander, which he built himself on a beach in Los Angeles.
Harry was also the first person to sail a yacht around the world via the Panama Canal and the Cape of Good Hope, the first to circumnavigate alone via the Panama Canal, and the first to circumnavigate the world alone twice (his second voyage, 1932-1937, also with Islander).
@ccohanlon Ah, one of my heroes. Absolutely self-taught. He'd never sailed before when he read some books on the subject and then built a boat and sailed it around the world.
He also did it just to go and see the world, rather than for any silly competition or bragging rights. And he brought a camera!
When he finally got married at age 72: "I have never been married, but now that I was 72 years old, I considered myself sufficiently ripe to give it a try."