I thank David for a link to an article about Minoru Saito
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8771085/Worlds-oldest-sailor-arrives-home-in-Japan-after-solo-journey-around-globe.html
And I thank Stephen for an article about Jeanne Socrates.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/09/british-woman-jeanne-socrates-oldest-person-sail-around-world-alone
I know of both of them. I do no know or care which of us is oldest by whatever number of days. This is nothing I ever even thought about; and I think I read some time ago of someone who completed a circumnavigation in his 80s, though I am not certain.
In the body of the article about Jeanne Socrates, it does add to oldest ‘non-stop’ and as far as I know she is the oldest to make a non-stop circumnavigation.
Both voyages are praiseworthy.
I sent notification when I completed the GANNET circumnavigation only to CRUISING WORLD, LATITUDE 38, and Sailing Anarchy, all of which had shown interest in the voyage and asked me to.
I do not seek or need validation from others.
GANNET and I were meet by a crowd of three, which was three more than I expected.
Long ago I was in the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS for my first circumnavigation. I did not contact them. They somehow heard of the voyage and contacted me.
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Not long after I posted this, John emailed that the story about Minoru Saito dates from 2011. I had looked only at the date at the top of the link. I thank him. So Saito was 77 then, not now. I am not going to check who was older at voyage’s end.
