Peter Blake
Chronology
| 1948 | Born in Auckland, New Zealand, on October 1 |
| 1956 | Given his first boat, by his father |
| 1968 | Builds his first boat, wins New Zealand Junior Offshore championship |
| 1970 | Finishes degree in mechanical engineering, moves to England |
| 1971 | Competes in his first major race, the Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro race, aboard Ocean Spirit |
| 1973-74 | Competes in the first Whitbread Round the World race as a crewmember aboard Burton Cutter |
| 1978-79 | Competes in the second Whitbread Round the World race, as a watch leader on Heath Condor |
| 1979 | Marries Pippa Glanville |
| 1979 | Wins Fastnet race on Condor |
| 1980 | Wins Sydney-Hobart race aboard Ceramco New Zealand |
| 1981-82 | Competes in the third Whitbread race aboard Ceramco New Zealand |
| 1985-86 | Competes in the fourth Whitbread race, as captain of Lion New Zealand |
| 1988 | Wins the Two-man Round Australia race aboard Steinlager I |
| 1989 | Wins Whitbread Round the World Race as captain of Steinlager II |
| 1992 | Competes for the America's Cup |
| 1993 | Wins Trophee Jules Verne by setting a world record for sailing around the world in 74 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes, and 22 seconds, aboard ENZA New Zealand |
| 1994 | Becomes Chief Executive Officer, Team New Zealand Ltd, New Zealand's America's Cup racing team |
| 1995 | Head of New Zealand team that wins America's Cup, taking the trophy from the American team |
| 1997 | Asked to head the management of the Cousteau Foundation |
| 1998 | Heads ecological expedition in the Caspian Sea |
| 2000 | Leads New Zealand in its second victory in the America's Cup |
| 2000 | Steps down as CEO of Team New Zealand to found blakexpeditions, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ecological research and education through ocean voyages |
| 2000 | Named special envoy to the United Nations Environment Program |
| 2000 | Makes first ecological voyage to South America |
| 2001 | Killed by pirates near Macap, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River |
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