Setting a record in Thames mud
’ve known sailors who have been desperate to leave a permanent wake for posterity over their passage-making and for most of them it is to find and complete a new maritime record. The knights Chichester, Knox-Johnston, and Blyth, however, left few bones to pick over. They included encircling the globe longitudinally; making the fastest circumnavigation; or making the longest circumnavigation, all of which have since been
