Laura Dekker is a New Zealand-born Dutch sailor. In 2009, she announced her plan to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed. In this remarkable 518-day journey Laura set out at 14 years of age to follow the route her parents took 20 years earlier through French Polynesia. She holds the record for…
Tracy Edwards gained international fame in as the skipper of the first all-female crew to sail around the world when they raced in the 1989/90 Whitbread Round the World Race. She received an MBE which is an order of the British Empire award. Tracy became the first woman in its 34 year history to be awarded…
Lisa Blair made history and became the first woman to sail solo and unassisted around Antarctica with one stop. She was awarded the Spirit of Adventure award by Australian Geographic and the Seamanship Award by the Ocean Cruising Club.
