"The deltas for the rest of the legs would have put ""Ceramco New Zealand"" 30 hours ahead of her next competitor. This yacht was helmed and captained by New Zealand's most famous yachtsman Sir Peter Blake. Farr designed the 58-foot yacht which came to be known as ""Maiden"", with the first all-female crew in the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race, skippered by Tracy Edwards MBE. The yacht had previously been skippered by South African Bertie Reed in the 1986-87 BOC single-handed challenge. ""Maiden"" is still active in 2018. In 2001 the event was renamed the Volvo Ocean Race. The"
"board of the Women's Sports Foundation from 1999–2006 as the President for 2003 and 2004. She is also politically active in the Democratic Party. As watch captain, engineer and diver on the 1st All Women’s Team to race around the world, on Maiden in the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race (now known as the Volvo Ocean Race), Riley was known as a leader on the water. In the following edition of the Whitbread organizers and sponsor Heineken called upon her to lead another women's team that had had a mutiny aboard their boat during the 1st leg. This story"
"GB and in the second leg became cook aboard the ""Atlantic Privateer"". Based on the small ratio of women in the crew–five out of 200–she determined to enter in 1989 with an entirely female crew. She recruited a 12-woman crew, and ""Maiden"" finished second in its class, winning two out of six individual legs of the race. Edwards, who had taken out loans to buy the boat, sold it after the race. In 1990, she detailed her story in the book, ""Maiden"", co-authored with Tim Madge. Her effort to better the Whitbread accomplishment in a female-crew bid for the Jules"
"one little girl sees this, sees it can be done and has a go, that will be what matters to me.” Tuck has spoken about how she has been inspired by other yachtswomen such as Ellen MacArthur and Kay Cottee. She will be a guest skipper on ""Maiden""'s global voyage in 2018 in support of The Maiden Factor Foundation. Wendy Tuck Wendy Tuck (born c.1965) is a yachtswoman and previous chief instructor and principal at the Clipper Race training base in Sydney, Australia. Tuck is best known as the first female skipper to win a round-the-world yacht race. Tuck was"
"Deborah Scaling Kiley Deborah Scaling Kiley (January 21, 1958 – August 13, 2012) was an American sailor, author, motivational speaker, and businesswoman. She was the first American woman to complete the Whitbread Round the World Race and famously survived a boating accident in 1982 off the coast of North Carolina, which became the subject of TV, books and films. Deborah Scaling Kiley was born January 21, 1958 in Throckmorton, Texas. She took up sailing at an early age and began working as a crew member on yachts. In 1981, she became the first American woman to complete the Whitbread Round"
"a crew member on her yacht and the father of her child. Clare Francis Clare Mary Francis (born 17 April 1946) is a British novelist who was first known for her career as a yachtswoman who has twice sailed across the Atlantic on her own and she was the first woman to captain a successful boat on the Whitbread Around the World race. Francis was born in Thames Ditton in Surrey and spent summer holidays on the Isle of Wight, where she learnt to sail. She was educated at the Royal Ballet School, then gained a degree in Economics at"
"brought back to England by Edwards in 2017 after a fundraising drive. After a major refit, the boat set off on a global voyage in 2018 to raise funds and awareness for girls' education under the foundation ""The Maiden Factor"". ""Maiden"", a aluminium-hulled racing yacht, was commissioned by the Swiss Ocean Racing Club, designed by Bruce Farr and named ""Disque D'Or 3"" (or ""Disque D'Or III)"" in 1979. She came fourth in the 1981–82 Whitbread Round the World Race, skippered by Swiss sailor Pierre Fehlmann. She was renamed ""Stabilo Boss"" for the 1986-87 BOC single-handed challenge, and came seventh, skippered"
"Heineken (yacht) Heineken (also Yamaha 1, Pontona Youth) is a Volvo Ocean 60 yacht. She finished ninth in the W60 class of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Dawn Riley. ""Yamaha 1"" was the first Whitbread 60 ever built and was used as a trial boat for Ross Field's team. It was built by Cookson Boats in New Zealand. When ""Yamaha"" was finished the yacht was leased to American skipper Dawn Riley, who finished ninth among the W60s of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race having an all-women crew. ""Yamaha 1"" competed in the 2003 Volvo"
"& S designed purpose built racing yacht manufactured by Royal Huisman. In the same year Clare Francis the first female skipper to compete in the race, finished fifth in her Swan 65 ""ADC Accutrac"" (Time 126 days 20 hours). In 1981–1982 edition of the race Swan 65 made one final appearance at the top end of the round the world race scoreboard with Xargo III finishing sixth and this time beating also a boat called Alaska Eagle (Originally called Flyer). Therefore, the total score of Swan 65 in three different editions of Whitbread Around the World Race are positions 1st,2nd,4th,5th"
"Wendy Tuck Wendy Tuck (born c.1965) is a yachtswoman and previous chief instructor and principal at the Clipper Race training base in Sydney, Australia. Tuck is best known as the first female skipper to win a round-the-world yacht race. Tuck was born in Australia in about 1965. Having begun sailing at the age of 24, she has competed in 11 Sydney Hobart Yacht races and was the first woman skipper to finish in 2017, earning the Jane Tate Memorial Trophy. Tuck first took part in the Clipper Round the World race in 2015-16, becoming the first Australian woman to do"
"inaugural two-handed Melbourne to Osaka yacht race in 1987, with crewman Colin Akhurst. Taylor and Akhurst were both thrown overboard when their yacht hit a submerged object, lost her keel and overturned. Akhurst drowned, but Taylor was rescued 18 hours later, 750 nautical miles north-east of Sydney. Taylor died in Rotorua on 18 April 2017. Digby Taylor Digby Fergusson Taylor (26 October 1941 – 18 April 2017) was a New Zealand sailor who skippered yachts in both the 1981–82 and 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Races. Taylor built and skippered the 51-foot sloop ""Outward Bound"", designed by Laurie Davidson, which"
"Baltic Race with the name ""Pontona Youth"" and crewed by a Danish youth team skippered by Thomas Dahl Jensen. Heineken (yacht) Heineken (also Yamaha 1, Pontona Youth) is a Volvo Ocean 60 yacht. She finished ninth in the W60 class of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Dawn Riley. ""Yamaha 1"" was the first Whitbread 60 ever built and was used as a trial boat for Ross Field's team. It was built by Cookson Boats in New Zealand. When ""Yamaha"" was finished the yacht was leased to American skipper Dawn Riley, who finished ninth among the W60s"
"Clare Francis Clare Mary Francis (born 17 April 1946) is a British novelist who was first known for her career as a yachtswoman who has twice sailed across the Atlantic on her own and she was the first woman to captain a successful boat on the Whitbread Around the World race. Francis was born in Thames Ditton in Surrey and spent summer holidays on the Isle of Wight, where she learnt to sail. She was educated at the Royal Ballet School, then gained a degree in Economics at University College London. In 1973, after working in marketing for three years,"
"her life in the ten years since the voyage. Kay Cottee Kay Cottee (born 25 January 1954) is an Australian sailor, who was the first woman to perform a single-handed, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world. She performed this feat in 1988 in her yacht ""Blackmores First Lady"", taking 189 days. Born Kay McLaren—the youngest of four daughters—in Sydney on 25 January 1954, Cottee grew up in the southern Sydney suburb of Sans Souci. She was born into a yachting family and was taken sailing for the first time when only a few weeks old. For secondary schooling, she"
"Digby Taylor Digby Fergusson Taylor (26 October 1941 – 18 April 2017) was a New Zealand sailor who skippered yachts in both the 1981–82 and 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Races. Taylor built and skippered the 51-foot sloop ""Outward Bound"", designed by Laurie Davidson, which competed in the 1981–82 Whitbread Round the World Race. In that race, ""Outward Bound"" won the trophy for best small yacht, and finished fifth overall. In 1982, Taylor sailed in the Whangarei to Nouméa yacht race, winning handicap honours. Taylor was awarded the Blue Water Medal for outstanding seamanship by the Royal Akarana Yacht Club"
"Kay Cottee Kay Cottee (born 25 January 1954) is an Australian sailor, who was the first woman to perform a single-handed, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world. She performed this feat in 1988 in her yacht ""Blackmores First Lady"", taking 189 days. Born Kay McLaren—the youngest of four daughters—in Sydney on 25 January 1954, Cottee grew up in the southern Sydney suburb of Sans Souci. She was born into a yachting family and was taken sailing for the first time when only a few weeks old. For secondary schooling, she attended Moorefield Girls High School in Kogarah, New South"
"Peter Blake (sailor) Sir Peter James Blake, (1 October 1948 – 5 December 2001) was a New Zealand yachtsman who won the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race, held the Jules Verne Trophy from 1994 to 1997 by setting the fastest time around the world as co-skipper of ENZA New Zealand, and led his country to successive victories in the ""America""'s Cup. In honour of his services to yachting, Blake was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995, and received an honorary doctorate in 2000 from Auckland University of Technology. Blake was shot and"
"1973–74 Whitbread Round the World Race The 1973–74 Whitbread Round the World Race, the first edition of the Whitbread Round the World Race, started off from Portsmouth, England on 8 September1973. Seventeen yachts of various sizes and rigs took part. During the race three sailors were swept over board and died: Paul Waterhouse, Dominique Guillet and Bernie Hosking. Waterhouse and Guillet were never to be seen again. The crew of the Mexican yacht ""Sayula II"", a brand new Swan 65 owned and skippered by Mexican Captain Ramón Carlin, won the overall race in 133 days and 13 hours. Her actual"
"Hope Goddard Iselin Edith Hope Goddard Iselin (January 17, 1868 – April 1970) was an American heiress and sportswoman who was the first woman to compete as a crew member in the America's Cup yacht race. She also owned thoroughbred racehorses. Hope Goddard was the daughter of Mary Edith (née Jenckes) Goddard (1844–1921) and Colonel William Goddard (1825–1907) of Providence, Rhode Island, a chancellor of Brown University and a scion of a family that had accumulated great wealth from mercantile and manufacturing activities. Hope and her husband Charles had many extravagant homes, including their primary residence in New Rochelle, New"
"Conny van Rietschoten Cornelis ""Conny"" van Rietschoten (23 March 1926 – 17 December 2013) was a Dutch yacht skipper who was the only skipper to win the Whitbread Round the World Race twice. Born in Rotterdam, van Rietschoten was unknown as a sailor even in his own waters before competing in the 1977–78 Whitbread Round the World Race. At 45, the industrialist had retired from active business and was looking for a fresh challenge. He had read reports about the first Whitbread Race, saw it as the opportunity of a lifetime – and grabbed it with both hands. A circumnavigation"
"Eugene Platon Eugene Platon () is an international yachtsman, participant of a number of world class sailing events, including the most prestigious Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race). In 1989–90, he was a key member (watch leader) of ""Fazisi"" the only Soviet Union entry to the Whitbread Round the World Race. Later, Eugene Platon brought his sailing/navigation and management experience to the Ukrainian team that for the first time in history entered Whitbread Round the World Race on board ""Hetman Sahaidachny""in 1993–94. Competing with the world's top sailors, Platon was successful in skippering and navigating the"
"Ross Field (sailor) Ross Field (born 1949) is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in multiple Whitbread Round the World Races. Field is a former police detective from Wanganui, who started sailing full time in 1985. He first sailed a Round the World Race on ""NZI Enterprise"" under skipper Digby Taylor. The boat did not finish the 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race. He was then on ""Steinlager 2"" when it won the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race. For the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race, Field skippered ""Yamaha"". ""Yamaha"" won the Whitbread 60 class and finished second"
"She sailed in the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race on board ""Charles Jourdan"". In 1990, Arthaud established a new world record for the fastest solo crossing of the North Atlantic, beating the previous record by two days. In 2014, she took part in Sea Shepherd's ""GrindStop"" campaign against pilot-whale whaling in the Faroe Islands. In 2015, Arthaud took part in ""Dropped"", a reality television show on TF1 in which sportspeople were transported by helicopters into the wilderness. During filming on 9 March 2015, she died in a helicopter collision in Argentina along with nine other people, two of whom"
"−5 to +40 degrees Celsius and will only take one change of clothes. In 1972 England's Whitbread company and the British Royal Naval Sailing Association agreed to sponsor a globe-circling regatta, which would be called the 'Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race'. 17 yachts and 167 crew started the first race of , which began from Portsmouth, United Kingdom on 8 September 1973. Approximately 3000 spectator boats set out to witness the historic start. The first race was won by Mexican amateur Ramon Carlin in a Swan 65 yacht, ""Sayula II"" The original course was designed to follow the route"
"Maidens' Trip Maidens' Trip is a 1948 autobiography by Emma Smith based on her experiences as a volunteer boatwoman on Britain's Grand Union Canal during the Second World War. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for 1949. In 1943 Emma Smith (then known as Elspeth Hallsmith) joined the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company under their wartime scheme of employing women to replace men who had gone off to fight. Freed from a middle-class background, Emma and her new workmates joined the boating fraternity and learned how to handle a pair of 72ft long canal boats, carrying cargoes of steel"
"of the three great capes; and she completed a fast (although not without outside assistance) circumnavigation in just 272 days. According to the rules of the World Sailing Speed Record Council, a circumnavigation of the globe for speed record purposes has to start and finish in the English Channel; James started and finished her voyage in Dartmouth, therefore fulfilling this condition. In 1988, Kay Cottee of Australia became the first woman to complete a ""non-stop"" single-handed circumnavigation, on ""Blackmore's First Lady"". The first woman to sail around the world was Jeanne Baret, a French woman who, disguised as a man,"
"published in paperback with an additional chapter charting the lead up to her Vendee Globe entry and subsequent world record achievement. In June 2009 Dee Caffari set a new record for circumnavigating Britain and Ireland after crossing the Solent finish line on her Open 60 Aviva having beaten the existing record by 17 hours. Caffari was a crewmember aboard Team SCA for the 2014–15 Volvo Ocean Race. In 2017 she skippers the Turn the Tide on Plastic boat in the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race. She will be a guest skipper on ""Maiden""'s global voyage in 2018 in support of The"
"to reach Hobart in 1946. Dagmar O'Brien, with boat ""Connella"", also took part in that year but retired from the race before finishing. Thus, the Jane Tate Memorial Trophy is awarded each year to the first female skipper to complete the race. In 1975, the first all-women crew sailed, with boat ""Barbarian"". In 1982 or 1983, Sue Bowly put another all-female crew together, but the sails ripped. They repaired the sails on the Navy's sewing machine at Jervis Bay, and carried on to Hobart, but no longer in competition. In 2005, 24 women took part, including Adrienne Cahalan, who is"
"Solo (yacht) Solo is an Australian ex-ocean racing yacht, winning over 80 races during her eight-year racing career, all on the east coast of Australia. ""Solo"" has circumnavigated the world three times, circumnavigated Australia twice and was charted for two Antarctic expeditions. All of these achievements plus many more have earned her the title ""The lady of the sea"". ""Solo"" was built in 1955 in a Sydney ironworks factory by a Swiss engineer named Vic Meyer from Solothurn, Switzerland. It took two years to build ""Solo""; Meyer and his son, Vic Meyer, Jr. did almost all of the work themselves."
"of the Fastnet Race, and gained further experience teaching and offshore racing in Europe, before her selection as skipper of ""Visit Seattle"" in the 2017/2018 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Two days after her 25th birthday Henderson, skippered Visit Seattle to second place in the 2017/2018 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. She was the youngest skipper in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race history. The same race saw Wendy Tuck become the first woman to win a round the world race. Henderson will be a guest skipper on ""Maiden""'s global voyage in 2018 in support of The"
"girls' education under the banner ""Maiden Rescue"". In the event, the yacht, considered unfit to be sailed, left Cape Town on 26 March 2017 by cargo ship. The shipping was arranged by Peters and May, who had worked with the Maiden team in the Whitbread race. ""Maiden"" arrived in Southampton in April 2017 and the original crew reunited. The yacht was refitted by Hamble Yacht Services in Hamble, near Southampton, in the same shed where she had been refitted in 1988. She was re-rigged by Ocean Yacht Systems, the same firm that had rigged her in the 1980s. It was"
"being appointed as Team New Zealand's Chief Operating Officer for their successful 2017 America's Cup challenge. Kevin Shoebridge Kevin Shoebridge is a New Zealand sailor who has sailed in multiple Volvo Ocean Races and America's Cups. In the 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race, Shoebridge sailed on board ""Lion New Zealand"". In 1987, Shoebridge joined the New Zealand Challenge for the America's Cup and sailed on board ""KZ 7"" in the 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup. He then returned to sail the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race as a watch leader, on eventual winner ""Steinlager 2"", before winning the 1993–94"
"Records certificate acknowledging her accomplishment. Karen Thorndike Karen Thorndike, born in Snohomish, Washington in 1942, was an American woman who sailed solo around the world, in a voyage of 33,000 miles, which she completed in 1998 in a 36-foot yacht named ""Amelia"" after Amelia Earhart. The trip took her two years and two weeks, but was not done continuously; for example, she had a three-month hospitalization for angina pectoris after her trip began. Her interest in sailing began in the early 1980s. Thorndike took some sailing lessons, began racing and was soon delivering boats from Hawaii to Seattle. During one"