Krystyna chojnowska-liskiewicz biography of william

Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz is a Polish sailor and in 1978 became the first woman to sail around the world solo. Prior to the start of the trip, Chojnowska-Liskiewicz was an experienced sailor as well as a trained ship construction engineer.

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Her yacht was designed specially for her needs. She launched in March 1976 and the journey around the globe covered 28,696 miles (46,000 km) and took 401 days. Chojnowska-Liskiewicz was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and was selected Gdańsk’s Citizen of the Year for 1978.

She wrote of her voyage in her book Pierwsza Dookoła Świata (First to Sail the World).

Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz was born on July 15, 1936, in Warsaw, Poland.

Poland's Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz set off to sail around the world by the trade-wind route in and on her return to the Canary Islands in

After World War II, her family moved to a town in the vicinity of great lakes called Ostróda. There she had her first yachting experiences and remained fascinated by big ships. She studied ship construction engineering at the Gdańsk University of