Using advanced technology allowing her to steer and control the sails by sucking and blowing through plastic straws, she sailed alone with a support team only helping her into and out of her boat, Me Too.
The Kiwis set the mark as they sailed alone to collect another point in the Louis Vuitton Cup for challengers.
He would not let them sail alone until they could show him that they could use the currents to return to land even if the wind died.
Aboard his yacht, which he is sailing alone far from land, he is suddenly jolted awake.
Alongside him on a new boat designed by Marc Lombard will be a man who has both set round the world records and sailed alone around the world, Brian Thompson.
Emirates Team New Zealand sailed alone around the San Francisco Bay course — at one point hitting 42.8 knots, or 49 miles per hour — to collect the first point of the America's Cup challenger trials.
She sailed alone to Gibraltar and rendezvoused on 14 May with the Bristol group of British warships already heading south to the islands.
The publisher and former diplomat whose body was recovered from the Chesapeake Bay after he disappeared while sailing alone apparently committed suicide, his family said.
Willis likes to sail alone because it gives him a feeling of victory over old age.
