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Jeanne Socrates (born 17 August 1942) is a British yachtswoman. [1] She is from Lymington.She holds the record as the oldest female to have circumnavigated the world single-handed, [2] and she is the only woman to have circumnavigated solo nonstop from North America. [3]
first woman sailing around the globe single handed Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (15 July 1936 – 13 June 2021) was a Polish naval engineer and sailor as well as the first woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum .
A pioneer in the sport of women's sailing, in 2005 she was the first woman inducted into the Sailing World Hall of Fame [1] and in 2015, she was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame. [2] She was born into a sailing family, the youngest of three children of Jane and Tom Fetter; he is a former commodore of San Diego Yacht Club. [3]
Deborah Scaling 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 the World Race, working as a cook on the South African Xargo.
In 1988, Kay Cottee of Australia became the first woman to complete a non-stop single-handed circumnavigation, on Blackmore's First Lady. [1] The first woman to sail around the world was Jeanne Baret, a French woman who, disguised as a man, sailed on the Etoile, one of the two ships on the French expedition led by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.
Kirsten Neuschäfer (born 23 June 1982) is a South African sailor specializing in high latitude and high adventure sailing. [2] She is the winner of the 2022 Golden Globe Race, the first woman to win that race since it started in 1968; it also made her the first woman to win any round the world race by the three great capes, including solo and fully crewed races, non-stop or with stops; and ...
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