Thursday 1 June 2017

SIR FRANCES CHICHESTER CIRCUMNAVIGATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY



There is a very pleasant BBC 4 minute video about Frances Chichester's single-handed sail around the world in 1966. He arrived back in the UK in July 1967. I went to see the boat several weeks later as I had just arrived in the UK.

Click on this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/features/magazine-40094750/40094750 


50 years ago



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