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  • It’ll Crawl!

    Thomas Fogarty illustration of men watching Joshua Slocum calk the Spray at a boatyard, captioned "It'll crawl!"
    “It’ll crawl!” — Thomas Fogarty’s illustration from Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World. Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail alone around the world on Spray.
    Why they thought it would crawl
    June 18, 2026
  • A Small Boat Keeps the World Big

    A small boat keeps the world big and I have always tried to keep the world as big as it possibly can be.

    That’s my aim, not a big boat with which you circle the world as quickly as you can.


    Thies Matzen / Wanderer III

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    May 25, 2026
  • There’s nothing swell about them

    I don’t know who named them swells. There’s nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

    Hugo Vihlen

    Listen to Sven’s interview on the Travel Grit podcast

    April 22, 2026
  • Webb Chiles – Six-Time Solo Circumnavigator: Travel Grit Transcript

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    January 23, 2025

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