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Heartbreak on high seas for woman sailor

By 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 […]

Record number of women in round-the-world boat race

By 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 […]