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quickly pick up the South Pacific's steady and balmy trade winds. His first port

world's largest ocean. He had shoved off from Long Beach, California, hoping to

Two years later, he wanted to sail his tiny craft nearly 7,800 miles across the

It was a remarkable voyage, by any standards, for a plywood boat he had built in

54 days to sail 3,800 miles from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Falmouth, England.

set a world's record for the smallest boat crossing, west to east. It took him

In 1979, Gerry Spiess sailed Yankee Girl solo across the North Atlantic Ocean to

TEN FEET ACROSS THE PACIFIC  Gerry Spiess heads Yankee Girl toward