Solo is an Australian ex-ocean racing yacht, winning over 80 races during her eight-year racing career, all on the east coast of Australia. Solo has circumnavigated...
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Look up solo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Solo or SOLO may refer to: Han Solo, a Star Wars character Jacen Solo, a Jedi in the non-canonical Star...
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omen during the cartoon. The footage was captured as part of his winning solo yacht race in 1981. On the American television series Rawhide, in a 1959 episode...
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Voyage of Madmen, about the 2018 recreation of the first around-the-world solo yacht race. Martin was the Australian Yachting Federation's Youth Sailor of...
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Lisa Blair (section Solo sailing career)
Facing Fear, about her first attempt at circumnavigating Antarctica solo on her yacht Climate Action Now. Blair was 25 years old when she got a job as a...
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it in his 2017 list of the 10 best yacht rock albums, explaining that, "It’s actually a sonic outlier for the yacht rock genre, heavy on acoustic guitar...
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Yacht racing is a sailing sport involving sailing yachts and larger sailboats, as distinguished from dinghy racing, which involves open boats. It is composed...
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Atlantic's monohull record stood until broken in 1997 by the yacht Nicorette completing a solo crossing in 11 days 13 hours 22 minutes. For vessels competing...
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The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day...
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Solo: A Star Wars Story is a 2018 American space Western film centering on the Star Wars character Han Solo. Directed by Ron Howard, produced by Lucasfilm...
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Royal Perth Yacht Club (RPYC) is a yacht club in Perth, Western Australia. It is the third oldest yacht club in Australia after the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria...
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The Global Solo Challenge is a single-handed (solo) non-stop round the world yacht race. The race was founded by Marco Nannini. The Second edition will...
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single-handed yacht race around the world alone in a small yacht, which he designed and built himself. "He became the first black sailor to race solo around...
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100 ft (33 m) maxi yacht. She was designed in France by VPLP and Guillaume Verdier and built in the United States by Hodgdon Yachts for Dr. James H. Clark...
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entering a period of maintenance in June. 11 May 2008 saw the Trans-Atlantic solo yacht race in Plymouth Sound started by the ceremonial cannon aboard Argyll...
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Portland, Oregon. I was enrolled when I was 16, back in 1996." YACHT was Bechtolt's solo project from 2002 to 2008. During this period, he released three...
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1845. Donald Crowhurst (1932–1969), who tried to fake a round-the-world solo yacht journey, set up his business in Bridgwater and was a borough councillor...
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into Peter and Christine Crompton, owners of Hazaña, a luxury Trintella 44 yacht. The Cromptons offer Richard $10,000 and a return first-class ticket back...
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Yacht Rock is an online video series following the fictionalized lives and careers of American soft rock stars of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The...
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The Vendée Arctique is a single-handed (solo) yacht race, from France to the Arctic Circle and back. The race was founded by in 2020, as a qualifier for...
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Association of India. Member Philip Bragg, who built the Suhaili, the first yacht to sail solo non-stop around the world, died in 1984. Yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnson...
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Aja (album) (section Yacht rock)
lead to "their yacht-rock masterpiece": 1980's Gaucho. Patrick Hosken of MTV News said that both Aja and Gaucho show how "great yacht rock is also more...
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Vendée Globe (redirect from Vendee Yacht Race)
The Vendée Globe is a single-handed (solo) non-stop round the world yacht race. The race was founded by Philippe Jeantot in 1989, and since 1992 has taken...
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Three Poles Challenge and Explorers Grand Slam, set a record for the solo yacht circumnavigation of Antarctica Mikhail Lazarev, discoverer of Antarctica...
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Alex Thomson (sailor) (redirect from Alex Thomson solo sailor)
professional solo sailing circuit at a young age. Thomson's Clipper Race win in 1999 made him the youngest skipper ever to win a round-the-world yacht race....
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joined the Rock The Yacht tour with Ambrosia, Robbie Dupree, Stephen Bishop and Little River Band. They also perform annually with The Yacht Rock Revue. Beckett...
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Jona Bechtolt (redirect from Y.A.C.H.T.)
vegetarian for most of his life and a vegan since 2000. In January 2006, Yacht was commissioned for two performances for the New York based art and technology...
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(California to Australia) oceans and a solo circumnavigation was completed in a Cape Dory 28. A division was Intrepid Yachts, which built the Intrepid 28 starting...
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Sailing (sport) (section Yacht clubs)
sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft...
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Australian sailor who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo circumnavigation at the age of 16. Although her voyage did not meet the distance...
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