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Trishna training in Bombay harbour-Sep 1985

The first Indian circumnavigation in a sail boat was undertaken in 1985-1987[1] by a team comprising officers of the Indian Army Corps of Engineers on yacht Trishna, a 1970-vintage Swan 37 sloop.

Trishna was given the singular honour thereafter of being transported to New Delhi and displayed on a tableau during the Republic Day Parade, 1987.[2]

The sail-off crew members
  1. ^ Dom Moraes (1987). Trishna. Bombay, India: Perennial Press.
  2. ^ Gupta, Shubhra (18 January 1987). "Saga of the doughty Trishna". Sunday Mail. Bombay, India.

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