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4 unusual facts about Teddy Seymour


Teddy Seymour

After a two month 2,000 mile (3,200 km) journey, Seymour passed through the Strait of Gibraltar with $38 worth of food and headed for home.

Teddy Seymour is the first black man to sail around the world solo.

Teddy won an athletic scholarship to attend to college, and is a former All-American cross country road runner star at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

The Joshua Slocum Society, the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey, Sea Magazine, St.



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