Henryk Jaskuła (22 October 1923 – 14 May 2020) was a

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, sailing captain, and electrical engineer. He was the first

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to perform a single-handed non-stop

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of the

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. 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

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Personal life

He has two daughters: physicist

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and Aleksandra.

Orders

Polonia Restituta Officer's Cross

References

Bibliography

Henryk Jaskuła - Polish Sailing Encyclopedia
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