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 […]
