8 Mike Plant Quotes

"Mike Plant" was an USA/American single-handed sailing/single-handed yachtsman. He competed in the VELUX 5 Oceans Race/BOC Challenge and the Vendée Globe, a single-handed non-stop race around the world. After five years of single-handed sailing, he logged over 100,000 miles at sea and set the record for the fastest solo circumnavigation by an American, with a time of 135 days. In 1992, Plant was preparing to compete in his second Vendée Globe and fourth single-handed circumnavigation aboard Coyote, a powerful IMOCA/Open 60 sloop, and was lost at sea while delivering Coyote from New York Harbor to Les Sables-d'Olonne/Les Sables-d'Olonne, France for the starting line. Coyote was found 32 days later, Turtling (sailing)/turtled, without the 8,400 lead bulb that should have been attached to the keel. At the time of his death, Plant was one of only five people to have completed three solo circumnavigations, joining Bertie Reed, Guy Bernadin, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede and Philippe Jeantot. On September 6, 2002, Plant was inducted into The Single-Handed Sailing Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island.