Robin Knox-Johnston, "Roaring Forties"

The first solo non stop circumnavigation, "Suhaili" 16 December 1968

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"For a brief inglorious moment there was me & two masts in sight & nothing but ocean in any direction for 2,000 miles" - Robin Knox-Johnston during the first solo nonstop circumnavigation with "Suhaili" on the 16 December 1968. Commissioned by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston the original is a treasured possession, you can sometimes glimpse it on TV when Robin is being interviewed in his lounge at his home.

Robin said this scene would be quite impossible to photograph, could Gordon Frickers make a painting of it? It has become Gordon Frickers most famous painting, reproduced in journals and magazines worldwide, even Reader's Digest! Robin said, "I would love another Frickers painting". One of Robin's distinguishing qualities is he means what he says, he commissioned more paintings.

Sir Robin is Britain's most renowned living sailor. He has taken on numerous circumnavigations since his first great adventure, many solo, is a Master mariner, specialist with ancient methods of navigation, runs The Clipper Challenge, has been a director of the National Maritime Museum, 3 times been Yachtsman of the Year, and generally had far more adventures than our space here can describe. In 2008, a gripping autobiography was published, "Force of Nature".

You can order a copy of this famous painting "Roaring Forties" signed by this living legend from our Marine Print Gallery.

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By Gordon Frickers 762 x 1219mm (30" x 48"), oils on canvas, Original Sold (in the collection of Sir R. Knox-Johnston) (Few paintings more clearly illustrate the power of the sea...and man)

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