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= Michał (Michael) Bogusławski (traveler) =

Michał (Michael) Bogusławski, nickname Krokodyl (born January 7, 1952 in Warsaw, Poland), Polish Canadian traveler, sailor, yacht captain, author and yacht club activist in North America.

Land travels
At the age of 17, he left Poland for Canada. He undertook geophysical research in Northern Alberta and the Arctic. He was also a long-distance truck driver and a miner in gold and copper mines. He interrupted his historical studies at the University of Toronto. In his youth he cycled the Toronto-Vancouver route (4,400 km). He traveled through Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa. He crossed the Northern Sahara and part of Asia with an off-road car. Known for many off-road, transcontinental motorcycle journeys throughout North America. As a ski instructor, he has given lessons on almost all continents. He worked as an windsurfing instructor on Barbados Island. He runs his own construction company in Toronto.

Sailing Achievements
As a teenager, he used to kayak and on the "Cadet" sailboat on the Vistula and the Masurian Lakes in Poland. Later, as a yacht captain, he sailed around almost the whole world. His most important achievements include: 3rd place in the Vancouver-Hawaii ocean regatta (Vic-Maui International Yacht Race); sailing from Darwin, Australia (via the Indian and Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes) to Toronto, Canada. He was the first officer in the Polish voyage from Detroit to Gdynia on the yacht "Julianna" (24 m). As a captain, he led the famous "Zjawa IV" from Ushuaia through Cape Horn and Arctowski Station in Antarctica. It was the first Polish sailing yacht to reach the Antarctic mainland (January 22, 2004, coordinates: 64 35 S, 62 27 W). He led "Zjawa IV" again with another crew, circling Cape Horn and reaching the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station. In 2006 he captained the cruise of the yacht "s/v Fazisi" from the Caribbean to Gdynia.

Club's activities
Co-founder of "White Sails" the Polish-Canadian Yacht Club (PCYC) in Toronto. He was the Commodore of PCYC "White Sails" in Toronto and the vice-Commodore of the Polish Yachting Association of North America (PYANA) in Chicago. Representative for Canada of the elite sailing association "Kaphornin Brotherhood".

Awards and distinctions
Gold Badge of the Polish Yachting Association (PZŻ); Decoration of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland) of the Gdynia Garrison Commander; Medal of Bravery (Canada) for saving a drowning Indigenous woman in the waters of Georgian Bay; The title of the "Polish Sailor of the Year" awarded by the Polish sailing magazine "Nasze Żagle", Toronto (2002); 3rd prize in the “Głos Wybrzeża” (Voice of the Coast) Cruise of the Year competition and the "Cruise of the Year" title awarded by the Polish Sailing Chapter of North America in New York (for the cruise to Antarctica "Zjawa IV") Winner of the International Conrad Prize - Maritime Individualities (2009).

Author's bibliography
Sterując na gwiazdy - USA (2002)

99 węzłów pod Hornem - USA (2007)