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Marion Barbara 'Joe' Carstairs (1 February 1900 – 18 December 1993) [1] was a wealthy British power boat racer known for her speed, eccentric lifestyle, and gender nonconformity. In the 1920s, she was known as the ‘fastest woman on water’.
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.
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 ...
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Linda Greenlaw (born December 22, 1960) [1] [2] is a best-selling author of books with maritime themes and the only female swordfishing boat captain on the East Coast of the United States. [3] She was featured in the 1997 book The Perfect Storm and the film The Perfect Storm .
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Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt (born Elizabeth Levi; 5 January 1882 – 17 May 1922) was a British racing driver and journalist.She was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world's first water speed record, the women's world land speed record holder, and an author.
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.