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Crew. 1 to 12. Maiden is a 58 foot (18 m) aluminium ocean racing yacht built in 1979, designed by Bruce Farr and raced by Pierre Fehlmann, Bertie Reed, Tracy Edwards and John Bankart. Edwards bought the yacht in 1987 to compete in the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race with an all-female crew. The yacht achieved good results and broke ...
Tracy Edwards, MBE (born 5 September 1962) is a British sailor. In 1989 she skippered the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, becoming the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy and was appointed MBE. [1][2] She has written two books about her experiences.
The 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race was run from Southampton to Southampton in 1989–90. It was run with several classes of yacht. Steinlager 2 skippered by Peter Blake won the race easily. For the first time since 1981–82 (when the race comprised just four legs), the victor won every leg in their division (albeit closely chased by ...
Chris Jackson/Getty Images Queen Camilla honored the Maiden yachting crew while hosting them at the Clarence House. “I think you are doing a brilliant job,” Camilla, 76, said on Monday, April ...
Box office. $3.5 million [4][1] Maiden is a 2018 British documentary written and directed by Alex Holmes about Tracy Edwards and the crew of the ocean-racing yacht Maiden as they compete as the first all-woman crew in the 1989–1990 Whitbread Round the World Race. [2] The film was produced by Victoria Gregory's New Black Films.
The Queen Consort hosted the Maiden yacht crew at Clarence House ahead of King Charles’s return to work to celebrate their win in the Ocean Globe Race.
In 1989-90, Riley joined the crew of Maiden, skippered by Tracy Edwards, which was the first all-women's boat to participate in the Whitbread Round the World sailboat race (now known as The Ocean Race). [4] Riley was the watch captain, diver and engineer.
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. [3]