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Interesting piece on the YBW News page about a Polish guy who has just done a non-stopper in the smallest yacht ever ... unfortunately it omitted to tell us how small it was!​ He called it the world's smallest yacht which of course it isn't. Looks maybe 25-30ft to me. Maybe nobody told the author of the article! Who writes this stuff? ... :nonchalance:
 
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Thanks ... where did you find that info? Is there an article I can read about this circumnavigation? It's the first I've heard of it being reduced to Motor Boat mags these days!
 
Kingfisher 3 said:
Interesting piece on the YBW News page about a Polish guy who has just done a non-stopper in the smallest yacht ever ... unfortunately it omitted to tell us how small it was!​ He called it the world's smallest yacht which of course it isn't. Looks maybe 25-30ft to me. Maybe nobody told the author of the article! Who writes this stuff? ... :nonchalance:
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Exactly my thoughts. Surely anyone who clicks on the article is looking to find out the size of the boat? Why on earth would you not think to mention it?
 
Smallest yacht circumnavigation

Mr Kuczynski the Polish sailor reached Plymouth yesterday to set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in the smallest yacht to have made the trip. It was the end of a gruelling 270-day journey in which he lived in a space of four square metres, and did not stop at any ports. He completed the expedition alone, unaided by medical or technical support. The classic route saw him navigate around the three famous capes of Africa, Australia and South America.

“It’s great to be back on land. I’m very hungry. I can’t wait to shower and have a drink,” Mr Kuczynski told The Times. After a diet of tinned fish and dried vegetables for nine months, he feasted on sausages, beer, fresh bread and butter. He started his journey from Plymouth on August 19 last year. His Atlantic Puffin, a Maxus 22 yacht which is 20ft 10in long, covered 29,000 nautical miles.

What I don't understand is with four square metres of space how did he carry enough food and water to last 270 days. For our Atlantic crossing in our 38 foot boat we stocked up food and emergency water bottles for a month and it took up all our storage space.
 
Wansworth said:
How times change remember the photo of Robin k j posing with his supply of food he took...how would that fit in a 22 footer!
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Yes but Robin Knox Johnson did it non-stop. This guy stopped in many ports surely?

Robin Lee Graham of the US "At the age of sixteen, he started out heading west in his 24-foot sloop" (He circumnavigated in the 60s.)
 
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Re: Smallest yacht circumnavigation

KellysEye said:
Mr Kuczynski the Polish sailor reached Plymouth yesterday to set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in the smallest yacht to have made the trip. It was the end of a gruelling 270-day journey in which he lived in a space of four square metres, and did not stop at any ports. He completed the expedition alone, unaided by medical or technical support. The classic route saw him navigate around the three famous capes of Africa, Australia and South America.

“It’s great to be back on land. I’m very hungry. I can’t wait to shower and have a drink,” Mr Kuczynski told The Times. After a diet of tinned fish and dried vegetables for nine months, he feasted on sausages, beer, fresh bread and butter. He started his journey from Plymouth on August 19 last year. His Atlantic Puffin, a Maxus 22 yacht which is 20ft 10in long, covered 29,000 nautical miles.

What I don't understand is with four square metres of space how did he carry enough food and water to last 270 days. For our Atlantic crossing in our 38 foot boat we stocked up food and emergency water bottles for a month and it took up all our storage space.
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Watermaker? With a spare? Salt water everything except drinking?

Then food. To stay alive. Tins of fish, beans and veg. About a kg a day? So only 350kg? Vitamin tablets for scurvy! And lots of packets of nuts for snacks.

I am diabetic. When i lost about 15kg i ate

4 eggs (can replace with protein powder)
Tin mackerel. Small tin beans. Tins veg.
Meat (could be tinned). Small tin beans. Veg.
Nuts as snack

I could survive on this forever. Might go mad but wouldn't die. So tbh the food is easy. Dried food would weigh even less. Just need lots of water.
 
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roblpm said:
https://www.katadyn.com/en/ch/140-8013433-katadyn-survivor-35

4.5 litres per hour of pumping. Gives something to do! So an hour of pumping a day?

And 2 spares.

And some water bottles? And some way of catching rain water?
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I wonder what the trade off is between making fresh water by hand, and simultaneously losing water because the effort means you're sweating the whole time. I think I would go with something solar powered if possible...
 
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