By David Pendered Feb. 15 – Violette Dorange crashed through the glass ceiling of the male-dominated world of blue-water sailboat racing when she became the youngest skipper ever to complete the Vendee Globe solo circumnavigation. The feat has pushed Dorange, 23, into the realm of rock stars in her home country, France, and around the […]
Women Sailors
Heartbreak on high seas for woman sailorBy David Pendered Jan. 6 – Heartbreak came in the form of a mast that collapsed onto her racing sailboat nearly a thousand miles south of Australia. Now just five women are left to compete in the male-dominated 2024-25 Vendée Globe. “I don’t know what happened,” British skipper Pip Hare said in a video broadcast […]
Women Sailors
Record number of women in round-the-world boat raceBy David Pendered Nov. 25 – A record-breaking number of seven women sailors is competing in one of the world’s major bluewater sailboat races around the world, an arena once dominated by men. This year’s group of seven female skippers in the Vendée Globe is an increase of one from the 2020-21 edition of the […]
Women Sailors
Gen Z women sailors – Olympic pioneersBy David Pendered July 6 – US Olympian Daniela Moroz is among the Gen Zs carrying the future of sailing into the Paris Summer Olympic Games, and beyond. At age 23, Moroz fits the bill to compete in a hot new Olympic class – the foil kiteboard. The boat looks like a snowboard that rides […]
Women Sailors
Swedes take unexpected flight to top of 49erFXsBy David Pendered Aug. 16 — Two women who were ranked “best of the rest” have soared to the top of the class in the double-handed skiff, the high-performance 49erFX. Sailing for Sweden, Vilma Bobeck and Rebecca Netzler have a lead that is virtually insurmountable. They hold a 36-point net lead over the Brazilian team […]
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Two women, one man anchor sailing coverage — without Gary JobsonBy David Pendered Aug. 15 — “Is this the fastest Olympic class? Stay tuned!” Who could resist the fevered pitch in an Aussie accent from Nic Douglass, aka The Sailor Girl, at the 2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships? Racing concludes Sunday. Douglass is one of two women, and one man, who are among the emerging […]
Women Sailors
USA’s Daniela Moroz sets blazing start in kiteboardingBy David Pendered Aug. 14 — The years of controversy faded when Daniela Moroz flew her kite board Monday to first place in the first day of racing in the ongoing inauguration of kiteboarding as an Olympic sport. The 22-year-old USA sailor named “one to watch” in the 2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships turned in […]
Women Sailors
New mom takes a first in first race of Olympic qualifierBy David Pendered Aug. 13 — The first-place finish Sunday by a Dutch skipper who delivered her first child last summer showed that, even after recent childbirth, Marit Bouwmeester remains one of the world’s elite competitive sailors. Bouwmeester, 35, rose to the challenge laid down by writers for the International Olympic Committee in their breathless […]
Women Sailors
Future of women’s sailing gathers along North SeaBy David Pendered Aug. 11 — Leaders of the next generation of women sailors to compete in blue water campaigns and as social influences are gathered on the shore of the North Sea to race in the primary qualifying event for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games. The 2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships has attracted a […]
Women Sailors
Female sailors, female funders make history in The Ocean RaceBy David Pendered July 5 — The Ocean Race of 2022-23 is a history-making moment in the role of women in round-the-world sailboat racing. Two points resonate: A woman co-founded the U.S. syndicate whose boat took first place; and more women than ever before participated in an historic race that dates to the 1973 Whitbread […]
