Mr William Washburn Nutting, commodore of the Cruising Club of America, who has challenged the Duke of Leinster to a single-handed trans-Atlantic ketch race, said that crossing the ocean all by oneself is not a terrible risky thing to do. It is more of a test of one’s ability to keep from being bored to death than any other quality i,he declared. Several sailors have successfully traversed the Atlantic alone, ..Howard Blackburn, off Gloucester, Mass., did it twice. During the nineties Captain Joshua Slocum sailed all the way round the world by himself, devoting several years (to the voyage.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 776, 17 October 1922, Page 5
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