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Kay Cottee AO (née McLaren, 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 37 feet (11 m) yacht Blackmores First Lady , taking 189 days.
On 17 December 2018, in between her two Antartica records, Lisa established two new world records; she became the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around Australia, and a new speed record as the fastest mono-hulled yacht to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Australia, doing so in 58 days 2 hours and 25 minutes.
This is the current record for a single-handed woman monohull east-to-west passage, and also the record for a single-handed woman in any vessel. [ 14 ] MacArthur's second place in the 2000–2001 edition of the Vendée Globe , with a time of 94 days, 4 hours and 25 minutes, was the world record for a single-handed, non-stop, monohull ...
On 20 March 2010, she became the fastest boat to sail around the world and set a record of 48 days, 7 hours 44 minutes and 52 seconds, improving on Orange II's performance from 2005 by more than 2 days. [6]
She finished a solo unassisted circumnavigation of the South Island of New Zealand in January 2008, becoming the third person in 30 years to do so, competing with Barbro "Babs" Lindman of Sweden and Justine Curgenven of Wales to be the first woman to do so. [8] She set the fastest solo time for the 2,700 kilometres (1,700 mi) voyage in 70 days ...
She also became the first woman to single-handedly sail the clipper route, eastabout and south of the three great capes, starting and finishing in the English Channel (a requirement for speed records). In 1988, Kay Cottee of Australia became the first woman to complete a non-stop single-handed circumnavigation, on Blackmore's First Lady.
The circumnavigation, however, would not start in the Netherlands, thus Dutch naval regulations do not apply to her voyage. [17] On 18 December 2009, a member of Dekker's family reported her missing to the police. [20] A farewell letter was left for her father, [14] although her boat remained in the port of Maurik. [29]
In 2010 the boat was stationed in Brest, awaiting a weather opening to beat the Jules Verne Trophy record (circumnavigation of the world), held since 2010 by Franck Cammas and the multihull Groupama 3. The first such attempt started on January 22, 2011, but she hit some debris in the Southern Atlantic and was forced to retire on February 4.