PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Dodge Morgan, the first American to complete a solo sail around the globe without stopping, has died of cancer at age 78.
A funeral home handling arrangements says Morgan died Tuesday at a Boston hospital. He was a journalist and entrepreneur best known for sailing nonstop around the world in 150 days in his 60-foot American Promise in 1985 and 1986. He beat the record time held by British sailor Chay Blyth.
Morgan, a Massachusetts native, spent much of his later life on Snow Island in Harpswell, Maine, and never lost his love of sailing.
He owned the Maine Times, an alternative weekly newspaper that he bought in 1985 and sold in 1997, and the Casco Bay Weekly, which ceased operations in 2002.
