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Bill Pinkney, Globe-Circling Sailor Who Set a Racial Mark, Dies at 87

He was the first Black person to sail alone by way of the arduous southern route, rounding the perilous Cape Horn and withstanding storms and loneliness.

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Black People, Cape Horn, Deaths (Obituaries), Knox-Johnston, Robin, Mystic Seaport Museum, Oceans and Seas, Pinkney, Bill, Records and Achievements, Sailboats and Sailing
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