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None of these challenges seems to faze the solo seamen who, prize money or not, set sail around the world in the same spirit that George Leigh Mallory climbed Everest—"because it is there." Broadhead has no worries about spending endless hours with only the elements and the creatures of the ocean as his companions. "I rather like to be alone," he says. "Free time? What free time? I will sail, navigate and sleep."
Australia's Neville Gosson, 55, seems even more insouciant at the helm of his 53-ft. aluminum cutter Pier I. His biggest concern, says the gray, balding real estate developer from the island continent Down Under, "is eating my own cooking. I'm the world's worst cook. '' —By Peter Staler. Reported by Catherine Callahan/Newport, R.I.