Sailing on the limit
These women are the toughest solo sailors in the world
These women are among the toughest solo sailors. They circled the world alone, already at 14, another cracked records with only two years of sailing experience.
“If you are a woman, it is still difficult to be recorded in top teams. It was easier to sail alone,” said French sailor Isabelle Autissier once when asked why she was taking part in one -hand sailing competitions.
The 66-year-old sailed around the world alone in a race in 1990. In doing so, she stands in a whole series of women who have competed against almost exclusively male competition since the late 1960s or realize the circumnavigation as a personal challenge.
Your inspiration is still necessary today. Professional sailing is still a male domain and mixed teams. One of the exceptions is the Sailgp, the high -speed race with high tech catamaranes.
Each of the more than twelve teams is mixed, a woman is at the helm in the Brazilian team: Martine Grael. It is the great model of Anna Barth. The Hamburg native is the strategist on board the German Sailgp team.
On August 16, the fastest sailing race in the world will take place for the first time in Germany. Sassnitz on Rügen turns into a hotspot of the international sailing elite in August.
Source: Stern
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