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British sailor (1941–2008)

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Alan Wynne-Thomas, born in 1941 in Carmarthen, Wales, and died on 28 September 2008, was a British offshore sailor and navigator. He crossed the Atlantic eleven times, three of them solo.

Biography

After graduating from the London School of Economics, he set up his own successful company specializing in health software. He plays rugby, successively in the clubs of Maesteg, Saracens F.C. and Otago.

In 1992, he took part in the English Transat, which he finished in third place in the category of monohull and seventh in the general classification. That same year, he competed in the second edition of the 1992–1993 Vendée Globe aboard his yacht Cardiff Discovery. Between the Kerguelen Islands and Heard Island, his boat capsized, but righted itself, he fell and thought he had broken his ribs. He gave up and slows down in Hobart, where an X-ray revealed that six of his ribs are actually broken.

Personal life

He married first time with Margaret with whom he had two sons Rhian and Rhidian. He then married Jill who gave him two daughters Ellen and Isla. He died of cancer at the age of 67.

References

"alan wynne thomas". Retrieved 1 February 2021.
"Boat History Profile". Retrieved 1 February 2021.
"Look Back at Capsizing in the Southern Ocean". 31 January 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
"Guardian - Obituary". 8 October 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2021.

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