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On April 29, veteran circumnavigator Webb Chiles closed the loop on his sixth solo circumnavigation.

Chiles and his Moore 24, Gannet, sailed into San Diego to complete the 29,989-mile epic five years after setting out. It was a leisurely circumnavigation by Chiles’s standards, with lengthy stopovers along the way.

In 2014, his route

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