![]() ![]() Then Dove labors up the following crest, and down we plunge again, day after day, my boat and I,” he wrote in his first article. “We sleigh-ride down into the deep trough of a trade-wind sea. Graham detailed his adventures in three National Geographic articles published between 19. ![]() He attended a memorial for a queen in Tonga, dived for shells in Fiji, safaried in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, hiked on lunar-like Ascension Island, ate piranhas in Suriname, and roamed the islands of the Galápagos. But there were also moments of unparalleled beauty and long sojourns exploring fascinating destinations. ![]() During his 1,739 days at sea traversing 30,600 nautical miles, Graham faced hurricanes, broken masts, crushing loneliness, a near collision with a freighter, and tedious weeks wallowing in the doldrums. The mariner was only 16 years old when he set forth nearly five years earlier, on July 27, 1965. Fifty years ago, Robin Lee Graham cruised into the Los Angeles harbor and made history, becoming at the time the youngest person to sail solo around the world. ![]()
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