GIPSY MOTH IV on her way The Netherlands – May 2023.
GIPSY MOTH IV – on the front page of the British passport in 2015.
WORLD FIRSTS & RECORDS
On 28 May 1967 having logged 28,500 miles (45,900 km) in just 274 days (226 days actual sailing time), Gipsy Moth IV claimed the following records:
- First yacht to be raced around the world
- Fastest voyage around the world by any small vessel
- Longest non-stop passage that had been made by a small sailing vessel (15,000 miles (24,000 km))
- More than twice the distance of the previous longest passage by a single hander
- Twice broke the record for a single hander’s week’s run by more than 100 miles (160 km)
- Established a record for single handed speed by sailing 1,400 miles (2,300 km) in 8 days
