Shane Acton
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Shane Acton
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Shane John Acton was an English sailor, known for circumnavigating the globe in an 18-foot (5.5 m) boat, the smallest ever, at that time, to survive the voyage. He first set sail from Britain in 1972 at the age of 25. Acton was born and raised in Coleridge, Cambridge, England. Without any sailing experience, he departed in a used 18' 4" bilge-keel sailing boat for which he paid the modest sum of £400. The boat was a Caprice, a Robert Tucker design originally named Super Shrimp but referred to by
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British sailor
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2023-10-14T01:38:26Z
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