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Welcome return from Commodore Robert Vose, as Sir Chay Blyth steps ashore at the Royal Southern Yacht Club on the Hamble, 50 years after his record-setting solo non-stop West-about circumnavigation
© Barry Pickthall / PPL
Sir Chay Blyth returns to the Hamble to celebrate 50th anniversary of his solo circumnavigation
British yachtsman Sir Chay Blyth returned to the Hamble on Friday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his victorious return to the UK at the end of a pioneering 292-day solo non-stop west-about circumnavigation against the prevailing winds and currents