Henryk Jaskuła
1923–2020 (age 97)
Biography
Henryk Jaskuła (22 October 1923 – 14 May 2020) was a yachtsman, sailing captain, and electrical engineer. He was the first Pole to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe.
He achieved it on the yacht Dar Przemyśla.
Jaskuła became the third man to circumnavigate the globe non-stop and single-handed on 20 May 1980, the day he returned to Gdynia.