1. Dodge Morgan gained fame in 1986 as the first American to sail solo around the world with no stops; Dodge was the third person to ever accomplish the feat and set eleven world records during his voyage including the fastest ever solo, non-stop circumnavigation.
Dodge Morgan set a world record for eastward sailing when he completed his journey in 150 days, cutting the prior record of 292 days nearly in half.
Dodge Morgan spent his later years living on a 30-acre island that he purchased in 1998 in Maine's Quahog Harbor.
Dodge Morgan's father, Russell Morgan, was a pharmacist who died when Morgan was two years old.
On reaching adulthood, Morgan joined the United States Air Force and flew jet fighters.
Dodge Morgan later recalled that he was trying to land at Presque Isle Air Force Base when his engine flamed out and the plane crashed into the Maine woods.
Dodge Morgan's canopy jammed, and rescuers had to extricate him with an ax.
Dodge Morgan briefly married Lael Warren while they were both at BU.
Dodge Morgan saved enough money to buy a 36-foot wooden schooner named Coaster.
Dodge Morgan sailed the 'Coaster' from Maine to Alaska with stops at the Virgin Islands, the Panama Canal and Hawaii.
Dodge Morgan manufactured and marketed many early radio frequency devices, early radar and their most successful Whistler radar detector.
Dodge Morgan made a promise to himself in the early 1960s that he would one day sail around the world.
Dodge Morgan commissioned The New Film Company, Inc of Boston, Massachusetts, to produce a film about his journey.
Dodge Morgan used the cameras as a film log and shot over 9 hours of film that was ultimately edited into the 57-minute film, 'AROUND ALONE.
Dodge Morgan departed from Ordnance Island, in St George's, Bermuda, on November 12,1985, and returned there on April 11,1986, completing the journey in 150 days, 1 hour, and 6 minutes.
Dodge Morgan radioed, " "She doesn't look any the worse for wear at all.
Dodge Morgan was the third person and the first American to sail solo around the globe with no stops.
Dodge Morgan wrote about his voyage in a book titled "The Voyage of American Promise," published by Houghton Mifflin in 1989.
Dodge Morgan purchased the alternative weekly newspaper the Maine Times in 1985 and purchased the Casco Bay Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Portland, Maine, in 1990.
Dodge Morgan began by laying off much of the staff, noting at the time that the newspaper had been losing money for about a year.
Dodge Morgan married his second wife, Manny, in 1972, and they had two children, Kimberly Promise and Hoyt David.
Dodge Morgan commissioned Portland architect Winton Scott to design a home for him on the island.
In September 2010, Dodge Morgan died at age 78 from complications from cancer surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.