The Bosco Atlas
Famous voyages, reconstructed
The voyages that made sailing history, rebuilt as living routes you can replay — every cape, every ocean, every port call. Each one is an editorial reconstruction drawn from books and archives, never a period GPS track, and says so on the page.
The one-stop circumnavigation that set the template
Gipsy Moth IV — Francis Chichester, 1966-67
Francis Chichester · Gipsy Moth IV · 1966–67
At 65, Chichester sailed Plymouth to Plymouth with a single stop in Sydney — 107 days out, 119 home via Cape Horn. A quarter of a million people lined the Hoe for his return.
First solo non-stop circumnavigation
Suhaili — Robin Knox-Johnston, 1968-69
Robin Knox-Johnston · Suhaili · 1968–69
Nine started the Golden Globe; one finished. 312 days alone from Falmouth back to Falmouth in a 32-foot ketch averaging under four knots.
The man who kept going
The Long Way — Bernard Moitessier, 1968-69
Bernard Moitessier · Joshua · 1968–69
Sailing home toward likely victory in the Golden Globe, Moitessier turned away — rounded the great capes a second time and dropped anchor in Tahiti, one and a half times around the world without a port call.
How these routes are made
Bosco Atlas routes are reconstructed by our crew from published accounts — logs, books, press archives — anchored on documented dates and positions, with plausible weather-route interpolation in between. They are labelled as editorial reconstructions everywhere they appear. Sources are cited on every voyage page.