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She finished 2nd in the 2023–2024 Global Solo Challenge on March 7, 2024, sailing a Class40 boat named First Light, making her the first woman from the United States to sail single-handed around the world nonstop and unassisted, and also setting a new around-the-world speed record for the class.
Single-handed sailing has become a major competitive sport, and there are a number of prominent single-handed offshore races. The Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR) and the Route du Rhum are trans-Atlantic single-handed races. The single handed transpac (SHTP) starts off Tiburon in the San Francisco Bay, and ends in Hanalei Bay, Kauai.
The Beneteau Figaro, also called the Figaro I, the Figaro Solo and officially designated as the Figaro Beneteau, is a French sailboat that was designed by Groupe Finot and Jean Berret as a one design, single-handed, off-shore racer especially for the Solitaire du Figaro race and first built in 1990.
A soft mast is best for light sailors, while heavier sailors use stiffer masts. Sails are also specially designed according to mast stiffness and crew weight. The Europe was introduced as an Olympic class in the 1992 Summer Olympics as the women's single-handed dinghy.
Holly Martin is a solo sailor and sailing vlogger best known for sailing her 27-foot sloop Gecko as part of her YouTube channel Wind Hippie Sailing. [2] [3] [4]Martin sails a Grinde 27 foot double ender sloop [2] that she purchased in Connecticut and returned to Maine where she spent over a year preparing to make her seaworthy.
Tania Aebi (born October 7, 1966) is an American sailor.She completed a solo circumnavigation of the globe in a 26-foot sailboat between the ages of 18 and 21, finishing it in 1987, making her the first American woman and the youngest person (at the time) to sail around the world. [1]
She was the first woman back and broke the women's speed record for a single-handed crossing of the Atlantic, [8] with a time of 25 days, 19 hours. Rob also competed in that race, finishing twelfth in the trimaran Boatfile. [9] In 1982, she and her husband Rob James sailed Colt Cars to win the two thousand mile double-handed Round Britain Race.
Articles relating to single-handed (i.e. solo) sailing — sailing alone, with no other crew. Both competitive and non-competitive sailing is included. Both competitive and non-competitive sailing is included.