Francis Chichester

Sir Francis Chichester, whose 1966–67 global voyage was sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat, its Woolmark featured on his baseball cap.

Sir Francis Charles Chichester KBE (17 September 1901 – 26 August 1972) was a British businessman, pioneering aviator and solo sailor.

He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route and the fastest circumnavigator, in nine months and one day overall in 1966–67.