The 41-year-old yachtsman has sailed around the world three times in single-handed races, logging more than 100,000 miles alone at sea.

Both of these are single-handed races, and are held every four years.

Golding is also competing in this year's single-handed trans-Atlantic race.

Single-handed sailing has become a major competitive sport, and there are a number of prominent single-handed offshore races.

Many single-handed races make use of Open 50 and Open 60 boats.

Stringent rules apply to single-handed races and speed records.

It is a single-handed race around the world, originally with 4 legs but now with 3.

The woman was killed in an electrical accident after the boat was finished, and the man was lost overboard in a single-handed race across the Atlantic.

"I think the BOC is the ultimate single-handed race," Scully said in a recent interview.

After an initial voyage towards Greenland, he entered the 1964 single-handed trans-Atlantic race and picked up his family in the United States.