American archaeologist and ocean sailor Gene Savoy has died aged 80. He sailed a reed raft, Kuviqu, in 1969 to prove that ancient Peruvian and Mexican civilisations could have traded with one another.
He later sailed round the world on a mahogany raft in a bid to prove how much further South Americans could have gone.
He wrote four books on exploring including Antisuyo: The Search for the Lost Cities of the Amazon and On the Trail of the Feathered Serpent.
Yachting Monthly, 25 September 2007
American archaeologist and ocean sailor Gene Savoy has died aged 80. He sailed a reed raft, Kuviqu, in 1969 to prove that ancient Peruvian and Mexican civilisations could have traded with one another.
