Story of big yacht.
The first long-range expedition yacht wheel was founded in 1967 by Jean de Boucher. Its route lay through the sands of the Sahara. In the campaign was attended by 23 athletes for 12 boats, only 8 of them reached the finish line, having three thousand kilometers from Algeria to Mauritania.
The first travel athletes were on light single land yachts, mostly converted from conventional ice yacht. But in 1973, has already become a traditional route of the Aral Sea - Caspian Sea was new, this time many local wheel boat. On this unit athletes Nelipa B., G. Romanenko and Alexander Lazarev 22 days have passed 853 km from Guriev to Komsomolsk-on-Ustyurt on sand of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan through Ustyurt. Unlike their other yacht was a three-wheel and had two soft sails - mainsail and staysail. At a height of 9 m Mast total reached 23 m2 sail!
In the autumn 1978, we learned about unparalleled 1,000-mile journey - this time through the Gobi desert. Three Polish athlete traveler - B. Skarzhinsky paleontologist and geologist R. Lunevsky and journalist Boris Piglovsky - conquered the desert on the land yacht "Gobi". This was facilitated by flat terrain and prevailing there north-westerly winds. Their boat with a red sail within two weeks raced at speeds up to 60 km / h, having sustained a severe test dunes. After the expedition crew of "Gobi" was awarded the badges "Honoured Master of Sports of the MPR," This trip was the beginning of the organization of sailing in Mongolia: Polish athletes in gratitude for their help in organizing the expedition gave his Mongolian comrades spare boat, a replica of "Gobi" .
No one wants to do something like that today?
