Jessica Watson is currently sailing round the world solo. She was off the South African coast around the end of Feb 2010 and reached Australian waters off Western Australia on about 10 April 2010. So her sailing time was approximately 42 days. She is not in any race however.
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Columbus set sail from Europe ... which is north of the equator ... and I'm pretty sure he never crossed it.
Portugal developed a route to Asia while still exploring Africa. Portuguese-sponsored explorer Vasco de Gama was the first person to sail around the southern tip of Africa, proving that it was possible to sail from Europe to Asia around the African land mass.
If you leave Portland harbor and sail due south, you'll run aground in the Dominican Republic.
he land in south america and a whole lot of rivers
If you were to sail from Cape Town in South Africa to Perth in Australia, it would take 7 days, 20 hours. The distance is 5,412 miles.
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Vasco Da Gama
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Approx 9-10 weeks it takes three and a half weeks to sail to Suez from the south coast of England which is approx 4 days from Scotland.
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Try looking at a map and you'll see that Johannesburg is about 500 miles from the nearest coast!!
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A month or two.
Around the south tip of africa..