Rollo Gebhard
Rollo Gebhard | |
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Born | Rollo Gebhard 7 July 1921 |
Died | 27 December 2013 | (aged 92)
Nationality | ![]() |
Occupation(s) | Circumnavigator and Author |
Rollo Gebhard (7 July 1921 – 27 December 2013) was a German multiple single hand maritime circumnavigator and author of books.[1]
Life
His father was a private scholar. The family lived in many places around Europe. In WW II, he served in the Air Force (Luftwaffe) as a photographer. In 1956 he bought his first boat, Solveig I (Swedish: sun-strength). With this dinghy he sailed to the Red Sea. With his wooden Solveig II he crossed the Atlantic in 1963 single handed. SY Solveig III was his third boat, actually a yacht. He did two round the world cruises single handed with that from 1967 to 1970 and 1975.
In 1983 he started off to an 8-year cruise with his girl friend Angelika Zilcher (later his wife), including a term of 6 month without a stop. Soon after in 1991, he founded a Society for dolphin conservation.
From 2001 to 2003, he did a Europe-Russia-Europe cruise with his 7th boat Solveig VII, a Dutch-built motorcruiser.
He published several books about his trips and about sailing itself.
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- 1921 births
- 2013 deaths
- Writers from Salzburg
- German sailors
- German male writers