

GGR 2018 Film Teaser—Les Sables d’Olonne Ville & Agglomeration
Arrival After GGR 2018 Finish
Post-Race Interview with Don
Staying Healthy for 9 Months at Sea with Balance of Nature
My 1st solo circumnavigation completely unassisted
A seemingly unattainable dream was put into words in my childhood: to sail around the globe solo. With only one stop. And in only one year. How could I even [...]
GGR 2018 Part 11 The Finish and My Take on it…
The ill-famed Bay of Biscay showed her true self on March 16th. But this wasn’t Puffin’s first rodeo, and we wouldn’t have noticed the heavy weather if the replaced Windpilot had been the right [...]
GGR 2018/19 Part 10 From Cape Horn to Bay of Biscay
My father and friends cheered for me remotely while I rounded Cape Horn for the first time back on March 5th, 1991. This time two of my friends, and my father, were close by. [...]
GGR 2018 Part 9 Cape Horn-bound through the Pacific and almost rudderless
This leg became very long, but its related comments in Puffin’s logbook are extremely brief. First, the exhausting struggle to stay in the race left neither time nor energy for detailed notes. Second, the [...]
Book Description
Solo circumnavigation of the globe. Fewer than 300 sailors in history have accomplished it, less than the number of people who have climbed Mt. Everest, or even those who have gone to space. In 1990, Istvan Kopar set out to earn his place among this elite fraternity—and to do so with only one stop…
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About Captain Kopar
Despite growing up in a landlocked country behind the Iron Curtain, Istvan Kopar was determined from a young age to be a sailor and a circumnavigator. He is now recognized as one of the most accomplished sailors in the world, and has the accolades to prove it…































