Captain Bill Pinkney
Captain Bill Pinkney
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Lessons from Bill Pinkney's historic solo sail around the world
Bill Pinkney chronicled his solo sail around the world as the first African American to do it the hard way — around the great Southern Capes — in his 1992 video diary and documentary. Special correspondent Mike Cerre has his story, and the life lessons his journey imparts, from Puerto Rico..
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2021 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Bill Pinkney
Bill Pinkney at the Induction Dinner held in Newport, RI at The Sailing Museum onspeaks Saturday, October 16th, 2021.
Captain Bill Pinkney Promotes Chicago Maritime Museum
Captain Bill Pinkney, the first Black person to solo-circumnavigate the world via Cape Horn, promotes the Chicago Maritime Museum. Captain Pinkney will be co-hosting the virtual CMM Festival, Waterways for All, on October 21st at 6:30PM.
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2022 JANUARY ISSUE
Full and By
By Bill Schanen
The first man to sail around the world with thousands of kids
2021 JULY ISSUE
Bill Pinkney Talks Solo Circumnavigation
Almost three decades after his record-setting circumnavigation, Bill Pinkney still finds joy and adventure on blue water
By Wendy Mitman Clarke
July 7, 2021
The View
Enter In honor of Black History Month, "The View" salutes Captain Bill Pinkney, who’s the first Black man and the fourth person in history to make a solo boat voyage around the world!
PBS News Hour
February 20, 2022
Cruising World Magazine
March 2022
The Amistad (1839) sailed from Cuba with a shipment of 53 captive Africans from Sierra Leone to the North America mainland. During the journey intended for delivery to a Caribbean plantation, the captives revolted, seized the schooner, killed the captain and the cook, and ordered the Cuban plantation owners to sail to Africa. The owners and crew steered the ship north instead, where it was seized by the U.S. brig Washington and taken to New London, CT. After a two-year trial, the case was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of the captives who were judged to have been free men prior to captivity. They were returned to Sierra Leone.
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project
Yachting World Magazine
"Commitment around the World":
Book Review
Sailing Commitment around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney (illustrated by Pamela C Rice)
Independent Publication $28/£22.40 Captain Bill Pinkney was not the first black yachtsman to sail solo around the world: that honour belongs – officially – to the little-known Teddy Seymour who completed his circumnavigation in 1987.
Sailing Museum Store
in Newport
Book Launch
Maritime Museum
December 22. 2022
Reading With Your Kids PODCAST
Captain Bill Pinkney is on the #ReadingWithYourKids #Podcast to celebrate his inspiring book Sailing Commitment. Captain Bill is one of less than 100 people, and the first Black man, who have circumnavigated the World in a sailboat. And he did the hard way, traveling around the treacherous Cape Horn. Captain Bill tells us of his adventure, what inspired it, how he found the courage, and funding, to undertake such a journey. He also tells us of spending 65 days sailing in the Pacific from South America to South Africa, seeing nothing but ocean, sky and an occasional bird. He explains that it was reading that helped him survive that incredibly lonely stretch.