around the world in 70 days

[sailbadthesinner]

Is it the same record if you don't set off from the same place?? or even hemisphere
Surely there is an advantage in being able to leap straight into the southern ocean when conditions are right rather than sail down there from up here and take the conditions you hope you forecast or maybe not??

 

[Twister_Ken]

Yeah, I suspect if all you wanted to do was a quick lap of Antarctica, (and you had enough hot water bottles and ice berg avoidance radar) you could get it over with in a few weeks.

 

[DaveS]

And after a few more years of global warming a circuit round the top of Asia and America would be even shorter and quicker!

Of course, if the ice continues to melt until there's none floating at the North Pole at all, a "circumnavigation" could be very quick indeed... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Methinks that by that time a better definition of what constitutes a valid circumnavigation will be required.

 

[gandy]

To meet the current definition, don't you have to cross the equator twice as well as passing through all longitudes?

I guess Sinbad meant that if the record is won or lost in the South why not start from somewhere down and choose a good forecast for the Southern Ocean to set off.