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Sprightly 88-year-old nicknamed ‘Junior’ becomes world’s oldest windsurfer

Piotr Dudek from Gdynia sailed into the Guinness World Records on Tuesday (April 18). Gdynia Centrum Sportu/YouTube

VIDEO: Piotr Dudek from Gdynia sailed into the Guinness World Records on Tuesday (April 18) after completing the challenge of taking to the water once in three consecutive months.

Howl about that! Sailors save drowning wolf

The sailing crew had been setting out from the port of Łeba in Poland on a sea cruise when they spotted the exhausted animal floundering in the water.

This Buoy! 12-year-old wins gold at international sailing world champion-ship

Józef Krasowski proved he’s ‘knot’ too bad after becoming the youngest Pole to ever win a world championship sporting event when he secured a blistering 36 point victory at the O’pen Skiff international regatta in Calsetta, Sardinia. So, how a-boat that! 

It was 40 years ago today! Anniversary marks sailor’s historic solo circumnavigation of the globe

Setting off on June 12th 1979, Henryk Jaskuła spent 344 days alone at sea before arriving in Gdynia on May 20th 1980, becoming the first Pole in history to make the voyage.

Incredible ‘white-knuckle’ memoir of first Pole to sail cross Atlantic is translated into English after being found by stepson

Written over 80 years ago, the book by cavalryman and sailor Andrzej Bohomolec and entitled The Voyage of the Yacht Dal, was found hidden among family documents. Intrigued to know more about the contents, stepson Anthony Keith had them translated. He was stunned by what he discovered.

Youth sailing festival unfurls its sails off Gdynia’s shores

The port will play host to the Hempel Youth Sailing World Championships between July 13-19.

He’s Popeye the Polish man: the roots of the famous cartoon character may lie deep in central Poland

Few know that the inspiration behind the famous spinach muncher and pipe-tooting  sailor was actually a man born to Polish parents.

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Poland sparks Russian anger as it begins changing Kaliningrad road signs to Królewiec

Posting on Twitter, the Ministry of Infrastructure said: “The first signs are already leading to Królewiec. We have just started replacing the boards so that they have Polish name Królewiec, not Kaliningrad.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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