Sail On! Sail On! Sail On! Sail On! "Sail On! Sail On!" is an alternate history short story by Philip José Farmer, first published in "Startling Stories" 1952. In an alternative 1492, Christopher Columbus sets out to find a shortened route to China and South-East Asia across the Atlantic, financed by Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain. However, in this timeline, the Earth "is" flat, though scientists and philosophers have doubts about its geological provenance, and an Angelo Angelli is mentioned as proving Aristotle's axiom that objects of different weights drop with different velocities (which Galileo Galilei disproved in our world). Radio technology
Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz she entered the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 21 April 1978, having sailed in 401 days. On 18 June 1978, she returned to Poland, where she is still seen as something of a national hero. In completing her voyage, Chojnowska-Liskiewicz only narrowly beat Naomi James, who completed her own single-handed circumnavigation on 8 June 1978. James' voyage is itself notable, however; she completed a fast (although not non-stop) circumnavigation in just 272 days, thus improving on Sir Francis Chichester’s solo round-the-world sailing record by two days. She also became the first woman to single-handedly sail the clipper