Robin Knox-Johnston

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is a British sailor, born in 1939, who in 1969 became the first person to complete a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. In 1994 he and Sir Peter Blake won the second Jules Verne Trophy for the fastest crewed non-stop round-the-world passage, and the pair were jointly named ISAF World Sailors of the Year for it. In 2007, aged 67, he set a record as the oldest yachtsman to finish a round-the-world solo voyage, in the Velux 5 Oceans Race. He also won the two-handed Round Britain Race in 1970 and 1974, and he described Ellen MacArthur's 2005 world record time as an amazing achievement.