Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race (STAR) is an east-to-west yacht race across the North Atlantic. When inaugurated in 1960, it was the first single-handed ocean...
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The Two-Handed TransAtlantic Race (TwoSTAR) is a yacht race first held in 1981. It is held approximately every four years with the last event in 2017...
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Chay Blyth (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
a Scottish yachtsman and rower. He was the first person to sail single-handed non-stop westwards around the world (1971), on a 59-foot boat called British...
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Unfinished Empire, p40 Edmondson, Locksley (1976). "Trans-Atlantic Slavery and the Internationalization of Race". Caribbean Quarterly. 22 (2): 5–25. doi:10.1080/00086495...
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Transatlantic telegraph cable (redirect from Trans-Atlantic cable)
History of the Transatlantic Cable – Dr. E. O. W. Whitehouse and the 1858 trans-Atlantic cable, retrieved 2010-04-10. Bright, pp. 78–98. Bright, pp. 99–105....
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Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, skippered by Alain Colas, and was lost at sea with Colas during the first "Route du Rhum" transatlantic solo race in 1978...
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Herbert Hasler (category Single-handed sailors)
Jester built some years prior to the first trans-Atlantic race, specifying that a fully enclosed deck, with two circular hatches in the cabin top rather...
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Lia Ditton (section Single-handed yacht racing)
the Atlantic under sail in 2005, aged 25, Ditton was the youngest competitor and only woman to finish the O.S.T.A.R. (Original Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic...
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Alec Rose (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
amateur single-handed sailing. He took part in the second single-handed Atlantic race in 1964 and circumnavigated the globe single-handedly in 1967–68, for...
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The Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR) and the Route du Rhum are trans-Atlantic single-handed races. The single handed transpac (SHTP) starts off...
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Globe Race was a non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race, held in 1968–1969, and was the first non-stop round-the-world yacht race. The race was...
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Transatlantic flight (redirect from Trans-Atlantic flight)
flying boats and as such was initially unable to provide a true trans-Atlantic service. Two flying boats (Caledonia and Cambria) were lightened and given...
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Contessa 26 (section Major race results)
Observer/Daily Express Round Britain Race after 27 days and 15 hours of racing. 1972 Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR) Richard Clifford completed...
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Éric Tabarly (category Single-handed sailors)
Channel Race, Round Gotland Race, and Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on Pen Duick III. In 1968, Tabarly raced the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race again,...
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Sailing (sport) (section Common race formats)
Yacht Race OSTAR (Single-Handed Trans Atlantic Race) Transpacific Yacht Race Fastnet Race Bermuda Race Hamilton Island Race Week Chicago Yacht Club Race to...
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third series of Race Across the World began airing on 22 March 2023. Unlike the transcontinental races in previous series, the race took place entirely...
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Vendée Globe (redirect from Vendee Yacht Race)
The Vendée Globe is a single-handed (solo) non-stop, unassisted round the world yacht race. The race was founded by Philippe Jeantot in 1989, and since...
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Marc Pajot (category Volvo Ocean Race sailors)
Two-Handed Transatlantic Race Lorient-Bermuda-Lorient in 1979 with Éric Tabarly on Paul Ricard. Third place in the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race in...
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The Transat (category Single-handed crew sailing competitions)
a transatlantic yacht race first held in 2004 as a spin-off for professional sailors from the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race which is limited to amateurs...
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David Lewis (adventurer) (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
Service. With the announcement in 1960 of the first single-handed trans-Atlantic yacht race (from Plymouth, UK to the US East Coast), Lewis decided to...
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corrected time for the monohull award in the 1968 Observer Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race. Dalling was born in Johannesburg to William Tweeddale Dalling...
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and also a pioneer of single-handed yacht racing, being one of the founders of the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race (the OSTAR). After the success...
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Francis Chichester (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
long-distance yachting. In 1960, he entered and won the first Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, which had been founded by 'Blondie' Hasler, in the 40 foot ocean...
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Detroit street circuit (section Trans-Am)
the Trans-Am schedule due to the increased television and sponsor exposure, made possible by the international broadcast of the Grand Prix. The Trans-Am...
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Gender-critical feminism (redirect from Trans-exclusionary radical feminism)
and view trans women as men and trans men as women. Originating as a fringe movement within radical feminism mainly in the United States, trans-exclusionary...
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Joanna Pajkowska (section Single-handed sail)
Fastnet Race. When living in UK she did club races and cruises across English Channel and Irish Sea. Three times she sailed in the two-handed transatlantic...
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Nigel Burgess (yachtsman) (category Single-handed sailors)
master's ticket. His first major single handed yacht race was the Observer Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race in 1968 in which he sailed his yacht Dogwatch...
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2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States (redirect from Anti-trans laws)
policies regarding trans students, ranging from allowing fully equal rights and non-discrimination for trans students, to requiring trans students to submit...
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Yves Parlier (category Single-handed circumnavigating sailors)
1985: Mini Transat 6.50 1991: Solitaire du Figaro 1992: Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race 1993 / 94: Vendée Globe participation 1993: Route du Café 1994:...
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