Small-boat circumnavigator
One of the UK's most distinguished solo sailors, Sir Henry Pigott (1925-2017), died in August after a short illness. His notable passages include a crossing of the North Sea from Sweden to England in 1948 aboard Glory, a 22 square metre boat that he called ‘the world's first sailing submarine’; a voyage to Brazil and back via New York in 1973 aboard Simba II, an 18ft Mirror Offshore; and more than 20 years on the oceans aboard the 19ft 6in, junk-rigged Glory II, in which he briefly held the world record for the smallest yacht to circumnavigate.
He sailed to the Shetland Islands in his daughter's yacht two weeks before he died.