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| 1966 | Rowed English Rose III, 20-foot dory rowing boat. Rowed across North Atlantic with Chay Blyth, Cape Cod, USA – Aran Is. Eire. |
| 1968 | English Rose IV, 30-foot bilge-keel sloop. Attempt to become first to sail single-handed non-stop round the world in Golden Globe Race, ended in Brazil. |
| 1970 | First expedition furthest source to mouth of Amazon. |
| 1972 | First crossing Gran Campo Nevado Ice-cap, Patagonia, Southern Chile. |
| 1973 | English Rose V, 32-foot sloop. Winter family sailing voyage Ardmore – Madeira – Canary Is. - Spanish Sahara - Cape Verde – Azores – Ardmore. |
| 1977/78 | English Rose VI, 57-foot ketch. Skippered own boat in Whitbread Round World Race. Ardmore – Portsmouth – Cape Town – Auckland – Rio de Janeiro – Portsmouth – Ardmore. |
| 1979 | Himalayan journey in Nepal. |
| 1983/4 | With Andy Briggs, in English Rose VI, record 203-day non-stop sailing circumnavigation of World by way of Ardmore – South of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America – Ardmore. |
| 1985/89/92 | Peruvian expeditions. |
| 1992 | Kayaking with first woman to kayak round Cape Horn (daughter Rebecca). |
| 1993/95 | English Rose VI, 554-day Family sailing voyage Ardmore – Canary Is. –West Indies – Panama – Perlas Islands – Galapagos Is. – Marquesas Is. – Tuamotu Is. - Society Is. – Austral Is. - Gambier Is. – Pitcairn – Chile – Bolivia – Peru – Magellanic Channels, Patagonia – Chile – Argentina –Deception Island - Antarctica - South Georgia - Tristan Da Cunha - Brazil – Azores – Ardmore. |
| 1996 | China. |
| 1999 | English Rose VI sailed to West Greenland by way of Faero Is.& Iceland. |
| 2000 | English Rose VI sailed round Britain to celebrate Millenium. |
| 2001 | English Rose VI sailed Ardmore- Cape Cod, USA- Ardmore to celebrate 35th anniversary of 1966 North Atlantic rowing voyage. |
| 2003/4 | English Rose VI ‘Save the Albatross Round World Sailing Voyage’. Ardmore – Canary Is. – Cape Town – Kerguelen Is. – Melbourne – Wellington – Falkland Is. – Azores – France – London – Ardmore. |
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