Longest Distance Run in 24 Hours
The records for the longest distance sailed within 24 hours are also recorded by the WSSRC. There are different categories:
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“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Not yet the thirtieth year, the thirtieth
Station where time reverses his light heels
To run both ways, and makes of forward back;
Whose long co-ordinates are birth and death....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.