Yachting legends join forces for Hobart race

Paul Keating would have called them a beautiful set of numbers: 13 times across the Indian Ocean, 10 across the Pacific and 10 across the Atlantic. Around the Cape of Good Hope eight times and Cape Horn five times. Through the Suez and Panama canals four times apiece and 40 times across the Great Australian Bight.

Phew. And that’s just Jon Sanders. David Dicks can add his numbers, too, including his legendary single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the world at the tender age of 18. Together, they are the world’s oldest and youngest solo circumnavigators, with Sanders completing both a dizzying double and a triple non-stop circumnavigation.