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Robin Lee Graham (born March 5, 1949) is an American sailor. He set out to sail around the world alone as a teenager in the summer of 1965. National Geographic magazine carried the story in installments (October 1968, April 1969, October 1970), and he co-wrote a book, titled Dove, detailing his journey.
May 1, 2024 · A profile of the famed circumnavigator Robin Lee Graham, who sailed around the world alone at 16 and married Patti in South Africa. The article follows his life in Montana, where he restored a mahogany knockabout and enjoys sailing with his wife.
Mar 11, 2021 · Sailor at Home. Fifty years ago, Robin Lee Graham made international headlines when he became the youngest person to ever sail solo around the world. Today, he and his wife Patti live a quiet...
Apr 5, 2022 · Robin Lee Graham made history in 1970 when he became the youngest person to sail around the world alone. Now, fifty years later, Emma Garschagen got to interview her sailing hero at his home in Montana.
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- Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, 1900. Slocum’s iconic account of his solo trip around the globe—the first person to accomplish such a feat—can be found on almost every sailor’s bookshelf and was a prime inspiration to Graham.
- Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail, by W. Jeffrey Bolster, 1997. Black seafaring wasn’t limited to the horrific Middle Passage. During the 18th and 19th centuries, thousands of Black sailors went to sea aboard whalers, warships, and clippers in pursuit of liberty and economic opportunity.
- The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float, by Farley Mowat, 1969. “The five hundred and fifty mile voyage across the center of Newfoundland was a prolonged exercise in masochism,” the Canadian author and naturalist writes in his hilarious account of his travails aboard the Happy Adventure.
- The Curve of Time, by M. Wylie Blanchet, 1961. After being widowed, Blanchet turned to the sea, cruising with her five children on long summer sojourns in the 1920s and ’30s along the coast of British Columbia.
May 1, 2024 · A profile of the famed circumnavigator who sailed around the world alone at 16 and married Patti in South Africa. Learn about his life, family, and passion for sailing on Flathead Lake in Montana.
Jul 22, 2010 · Robin Lee Graham, who sailed around the world as a 16-year-old in 1965, shares his views on the recent attempts by young sailors to break his record. He discusses the challenges, risks and rewards of such voyages, and his own experience with his mother's opposition.
