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On this day in 2005: Ellen MacArthur smashes round the world sailing record

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Yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur smashed the record for the fastest single-handed circumnavigation of the globe 18 years ago.

MacArthur, then 28, completed her 27,354-mile odyssey in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds on February 7, 2005.

With an average speed on the water of 15.9 knots, she beat the previous record set by Frenchman Francis Joyon by more than a day.

It was an astounding achievement given that many in sailing had predicted Joyon’s mark, set only in 2004, would last many years. Joyon had taken more than 20 days off the previous record in completing his journey in 72 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 22 seconds.

MacArthur, from Cowes on the Isle of Wight, set out on November 28, 2004 in her 75ft trimaran called B&Q/Castorama. She crossed the finish line off Ushant, France , at 10.25pm on February 7.

During an incident-packed voyage she narrowly avoided colliding with a whale, suffered burns to her arm and was battered and bruised after climbing the 90ft mast to carry out repairs.

She also had to battle gales and icebergs in the Southern Ocean , deal with light winds in the Atlantic and cope with a host of other technical problems.

Despite that, she managed to stay ahead of Joyon’s time for the vast majority of her adventure. She also collected another five records on the way, beating Joyon’s time to the Equator, the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin in Australia, Cape Horn and back to the Equator.

“I am elated, I am absolutely drained, it has been a very tough trip,” MacArthur said. “When I crossed the line I felt like collapsing on the floor and just falling asleep. I was absolutely over the moon.”

MacArthur, originally from Derbyshire , was given a Damehood soon after her completing her quest.

Her record stood for almost three years before being reclaimed by Joyon. He took another 14 days off the time, finishing in 57 days, 13 hours and 34 minutes.

The record is currently held by another Frenchman, Francois Gabart, who completed the journey in 42 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 35 seconds in December 2017.

MacArthur, who still holds the record for the fastest woman to sail solo around the world, retired in 2010 and set up the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which campaigns for a circular economy to eliminate waste and pollution.

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Thirty-three years after British round-the-world yachtswoman Tracy Edwards and her all-female crew sailed into Southampton to a hero's welcome, her yacht Maiden is about to embark on a final race.

Record-breaking Edwards and her team defied expectations in 1990 to come second in the gruelling Whitbread race. They survived a tornado on the final leg and went the last five days without food.

Now, after being rescued from the scrapyard and painstakingly restored, Maiden is ready for one last stab at yachting glory.

"She's reaching the point now where she's had her day," Edwards told AFP at London's St Katharine Dock, where Maiden is moored.

The yacht, built in 1977, will be retired next year after she has competed in this year's Ocean Globe Race -- the Whitbread's successor -- which will start from Southampton on the southern English coast on September 10.

Once again Edwards, whose Whitbread crew was the first all-female team to take part, has put together a women-only line-up -- this time drawn from all corners of the globe.

The crew, skippered by the UK's Heather Thomas, includes yachtswomen from India and Antigua as well as an Afghan film-maker.

Since Maiden's restoration, Edwards has been sailing the boat around the world as part of her charity work to promote girl's education and empowerment.

The subject is close to Edwards' heart after her own experience of discrimination as a young yachtswoman in a male-dominated sport.

One skipper famously rejected her saying his crew wouldn't be the "only racing team in the world with a girl".

That, she says, made her more determined.

When glory came, the yachting world was astounded. Many had not even expecting her team to finish the first leg.

Edwards went on to become the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year trophy.

She hopes the 2023 crew will inspire girls and young women who might think sailing is not for "people like them".

The search for the team took her "far afield" sparked by a meeting with Whoopi Goldberg, patron of her girl's education charity The Maiden Factor.

"When we met her in New York she looked at me and said 'where are all the black girls in sailing?' And she was right," Edwards said.

Edwards' Maiden Factor works with charities and girls educational programmes to help those with no access to education.

Edwards is particularly preoccupied by the plight of women in Afghanistan since the return of the Taliban government two years ago.

"I feel angry... . Women are being cancelled. I just can't find the words," she said.

Since August 2021, girls have been barred from schools and universities and most UN and NGO jobs.

Afghan video journalist Najiba Noori, 28, who will accompany the crew, said she was honoured.

"My generation had some chances, some opportunities, it was not easy but we started fighting and we achieved," she said, adding that she was "really worried" for the next generation.

"Their future is dark, it's a tragedy," she said.

After the Ocean Globe race, Maiden will resume her "world tour", promoting girl's education for a last few months before retirement.

Her final itinerary will include Jordan.

Jordan's late King Hussein was Maiden's first sponsor after a chance meeting in the US when he gave Edwards his palace phone number and urged her "to give him a shout".

Since the king's death in 1999, his daughter Princess Haya bint Hussein has continued to offer support and help.

Hussein was a "great mentor" and encouraged Edwards to ignore critics who thought competitive sailing was too tough for women, she said.

"He was way ahead of his time. Girls in Jordan went to school, university, wore trousers, had jobs and sat in the government.

"He was visionary, an extraordinary man," she said.

Sailing Legend Tracy Edwards' Yacht Maiden Set For Swansong

Thirty-three years after British round-the-world yachtswoman Tracy Edwards and her all-female crew sailed into Southampton to a hero's welcome, her yacht Maiden is about to embark on a final race.

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Ellen MacArthur knew she wanted to sail from the age of 4 — by the time she turned 30, she was a record breaker in the sport

Not many can say that they've single-handedly sailed around the world. One individual who can however, is Ellen MacArthur, who managed to do it before turning 30 — twice .

For the record breaking sailor-turned-advocate for the circular economy, MacArthur's love for the sport dates back to when she was just four years of age, when she first got the opportunity to go sailing.

"I'll never forget that feeling as a kid of setting foot on a boat for the first time. To see this little world — and it was a small boat — but it had little bunks, a little cabin, a kitchen."

"It kind of struck me that this boat had everything we needed to take us anywhere in the world. And as a child, that opened up everything," MacArthur told CNBC's Tania Bryer , explaining how it felt like the "greatest sense of freedom."

"I knew then that I wanted to sail around the world. As a kid, that was the goal. I had no idea how to get there – growing up in the countryside, it wasn't the most obvious career path – but I knew that was what I wanted to do at some stage."

This episode ignited a passion within MacArthur, who acquired knowledge and saved up for years to pursue a career in sailing.

Speaking on the " CNBC Conversation ," the world-renowned retired sailor recalls how she would save her dinner money every day, so that she could save up to buy the right equipment.

"You make every step in your life one that gets you one step closer to that goal. And that step could be so small," MacArthur said, explaining how she would have mashed potato and baked beans every day for eight years, to save cash.

By reaching certain financial goals and asking technical questions about sailing, this helped MacArthur feel as though she was getting closer to her ambitions.

"I think having a goal, so young, it just gives you focus. And it gives you a direction," she said, adding that there are many parallels between her goal of becoming a sailor, and that of the work she does at her eponymous foundation , which aims to promote a circular economy , whereby economic activity builds and rebuilds the overall health of the system.

"When you know where you're going, you can actually get there — even if it seems impossible. I think that drive from being a kid and wanting to sail around the world, and somehow making that happen — maybe it teaches you that the impossible could be possible and aiming high is not necessarily such a crazy thing to do."

And it seems that MacArthur's drive to become a sailor went beyond her expectations. At the age of 24 , she started to garner media attention after participating in the Vendee Globe, a single-handed non-stop yacht race that goes around the world. She came in second place.

Having a goal, so young, it just gives you focus. And it gives you a direction Ellen MacArthur Founder and Chair of Trustees at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Some three to four years later, the sportswoman chose to sail for 71 days and 14 hours, covering more than 26,000 miles during the course of her journey.

This led to MacArthur scoring a new world record in 2005 , as the fastest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handedly. While this record has since been surpassed, MacArthur is still considered as Britain's most successful offshore racer.

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Tracy Edwards’ Maiden to compete in the new retro Whitbread Round the World Race

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• October 17, 2019

Tracy Edwards has announced that her 58ft Bruce Farr-designed Maiden will race in the Ocean Globe Race, the retro Whitbread Round the World Race

Tracy Edwards made history in 1989 as the skipper of the first all female crew to sail around the world in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. Maiden won two legs and came second overall in her class. The best result for a British boat in the race since 1977.

Now Maiden could be racing the route again in the Ocean Globe Race (OGR), a retro Whitbread Round the World Race designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first event in 1973.

Organised by Don McIntyre, who was behind the 2018 Golden Globe Race , the 30,000 mile event is scheduled to start in Europe on 10 September 2023 and will have four legs taking in the Southern Ocean and the three great capes.

Stopovers will include South Africa, Australia or New Zealand and South America, before finishing back in Europe in April 2024.

Maiden won two legs in the 1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race

Skippers from France, Finland and the UK have already committed to take part in the event including Edwards.

She recently told organisers: ‘With so many yachts from previous Whitbread races being rescued and restored, as has Maiden of course, it seems only fitting that we should race them around the world again. COUNT US IN!’

Maiden is currently sailing around the world as part of work for the not-for-profit The Maiden Factor , promoting girls’ education and raising money to directly support a group of charities  already working in the field.

Tracy Edwards is currently focussed on The Maiden Factor, promoting girls’ education around the world, but will she be tempted to skipper in the race?. Credit: Tim Anderson

Finland’s Tapio Lehtinen , a finisher in the 2018 Golden Globe Race, has entered a Swan 55 in the Adventure Class for production yachts between 47 – 55.25ft.

He has just taken ownership of the Olin Stephens designed yawl Galiana , one of two Swan 55s now entered in the 2023 Ocean Globe Race , and will set out from Southampton UK bound for Finland at the weekend.

First launched in 1970, Galiana is the second of 16 yachts to be built by Nautor to this design, which Lehtinen describes  as ‘the classiest and most beautiful of the early Swans.’

Tapio Lehtinen was the last to finish the GGR. Credit: Christophe Favreau/PPL/GGR

British yachtsman Alan Macmillan shares that view. He has entered his cutter rigged Swan 55 Ariana and is about to embark on a round the world cruise in preparation for the 2023 OGR.

Lehtinen, who has also re-entered the 2022 Golden Globe Race, sailed in the 1981 Whitbread as watch leader aboard Skopbank of Finland , and is using his OGR programmer to ‘blood’ the next generation of Finnish ocean sailors now graduating through the youth racing classes by introducing them to the Southern Ocean and the global racing scene.

This he hopes will secure a continuation of the Finnish round the world sailing legacy, which dates back to the days of the Gustaf Erikson windjammers and the theme of the Ocean Globe clipper route.

Demand for places in the Sayula Class for prescribed yachts between 57.4 and 65.5ft is equally high with five owners earmarking Swan 65s – sisterships to Sayula II , the original 1973/4 Race winner.

One is French entrant Dominique Dubois, owner of the Multiplast Boatyard in Vannes, who previously owned a Swan 65, but sold it a few years ago to buy an ultralight boat to compete in last year’s Route du Rhum solo transatlantic race.

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The last Golden Globe Race skipper Tapio Lehtinen has arrived back in Les Sables d'Olonne after 322 days alone at

He built all the Volvo 65’s, the giant record setting trimarans like Francis Joyon’s Idec Sport and Thomas Colville’s Sodebo , together with a series of race-winning IMOCA 60’s.

Commenting on the entry list, race chairman Don McIntyre said: ‘Many want to remain confidential at this stage but I can say we now have 12 confirmed entries representing Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, UK and USA with the strongest enquires coming from Finland and France. There is also strong interest from the current owners of Sir Peter Blake’s 1981/2 Whitbread yacht Ceramco NZ and the French Whitbread winning yacht L’Esprit d’Equipe.’

The UK’s Alan Macmillan promises strong competition from his cutter rigged Swan 55, Ariana

Sir Chay Blyth , who competed in two of the early Whitbread races onboard Great Britain II , and claimed nine of the 12 trophies on offer in the ’73 Race, has also endorsed the OGR.

‘Delighted to hear that a 50th Anniversary edition of the Whitbread is being launched. The Ocean Globe will be a great adventure as well as a great race for participants. What a great challenge they can set themselves. My congratulations to the organiser; it is such a bold and exciting move! he said.

Recent Rule Changes

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the first fully crewed 1973 Whitbread Race and sailed in similar yachts with 1970’s equipment including sextants and cassette music tapes, the 2023 OGR gives ordinary sailors the opportunity to race around the Globe for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Entries are limited to approved production ocean racing yachts between 47 and 65.5ft designed prior to 1988. There are also 8 places available in a third Flyer Class for yachts that competed in the first three Whitbread races and other production ocean certified sail-training yachts. Tracy Edwards’ Maiden is eligible because the yacht first raced in the 1981/2 Whitbread as Disque D’or .

Together with the pre-1988 designed Nautor Swan range of yachts, the Nicholson 55, Grand Soleil 52, Oyster Lightwave 48 and Baltic 48 production yachts are also now type approved.

Some OGR entrants were challenged with the idea of removing extensive electronics, carbon spars or painting high visibility patches on beautiful teak decks as required under the pre-Notice of Race. Following extensive discussions, entrants no longer need to remove existing electronics, just disable them temporarily by removing control heads. High visibility cockpit dodgers will also substitute for the high vis. deck paint, and carbon spars fitted before July 1st 2019 are also approved.

Tapio Lehtinen has entered the yawl rigged Swan 55, Galiana in the race

The larger yachts and ex-Whitbread entries use Dyneema/Spectra runners and check stays for safety reasons, as well as halyards. All now approved. Spinnaker snuffers were shown to be available in 1973 and are now approved for safety reasons with amateur crew, even though they were not used in the original Whitbread Race.

Following six months of discussion with builders, surveyors and owners, it has also been shown that each keel is unique with regard to engineering integrity. While the final responsibility rests with the skipper, it is now agreed that the independent qualified surveyor responsible for inspecting an entry prior to the start of the OGR, will consider the yacht’s history and condition before determining if the keel needs to be removed for service.

The use of satellite communications equipment is severely restricted except for safety, and no live video streaming is allowed, but the scheduled once-a-week satellite phone call to race control, now includes delivery of one satellite photo from the yacht.

For the smallest Adventure Class for yachts down to 47ft, the minimum mixed gender crew required has been reduced to six.

All OGR outer garments must predominantly be of a colour that easily distinguishes with the wearer in the ocean.

Ellen MacArthur

Ellen and Falmouth Choosing Falmouth as the port to leave from and return to, Ellen broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat which gained her international renown. On 7th Feb Feb 2007 she completed the challenge in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds

Her record breaking achievements: In June 2000, MacArthur sailed the monohull Kingfisher from Plymouth, UK to Newport, Rhode Island, USA in 14 days, 23 hours, 11 minutes. This is the current record for a single-handed monohull east-to-west passage, and also the record for a single-handed woman in any vessel Her time 94 days, 4 hours and 25 minutes in the Vendee Globe is the world record for a single-handed, non-stop, monohull circumnavigation by a woman Ellen set a new world record in June 2004, when she sailed her trimaran B&Q/Castorama from Ambrose Light, Lower New York Bay, USA to Lizard Point, Cornwall, UK in 7 days, 3 hours, 50 minutes.

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Woman sets record as oldest person to sail solo around the world

Jeanne Socrates, 77, became the oldest solo round-the-world sailor.

This 77-year-old British yachtswoman broke a world record for oldest person to sail around the world from North America solo, nonstop and unassisted.

Jeanne Socrates arrived at Royal Victoria Yacht Club in Canada on Saturday afternoon flying an orange sail aboard the SV Nereida after just under a year at sea since she departed on Oct. 3, 2018.

The yacht club shared photos and videos of Socrates sailing into port with a flotilla of other boats anxiously waiting in the breakwater and harbor as her solo circumnavigation came to a close.

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During a previous attempt at the same record in 2017, Socrates was forced to stop after she broke her neck and ribs, she explained on her website .

Socrates, who is from Lymington in Hampshire, documented her months-long journey on a blog that included photos, articles and a Google Earth map that tracked her progress during the voyage.

Charlotte Kaufman, founder of Women Who Sail, the largest online group of women sailors in the world, hailed Socrates' accomplishements.

"I'm honored to know a lot of record-breaking sailors and women accomplishing amazing things on the water," she told ABC News. "Women's achievements both in the sport and in the industry have truly reached a tipping point in world records and accomplishments," Kaufman added.

The previous record was held by Minoru Saito, who was 71 when he completed the journey in 2005, according to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club.

Socrates' 38-foot boat was named after the Nereids, handmaidens of Poseidon, of ancient Greek mythology, according to her blog.

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Socrates did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.

The seasoned sailor, who has previously completed other solo travels, was officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest woman to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world in 2013.

"In addition to Jeanne's world record, we have the first woman to helm an America's Cup Boat (Carolijn Brouwer for Team Netherlands in 2021), the first woman and youngest person to enter the Golden Globe Race (Susie Goodall, 2018), and Lisa Blair [who] holds the records for first woman to sail solo, nonstop, unassisted around Australia (2018) and she's also the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica (2017)," Kaufman explained.

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Yachting legend edwards’ ‘maiden’ set for final race.

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Thirty-three years after British round-the-world yachtswoman Tracy Edwards and her all-female crew sailed into Southampton to a hero’s welcome, her yacht Maiden is about to embark on a final race.

Record-breaking Edwards and her team defied expectations in 1990 to come second in the grueling Whitbread Round the World race. They survived a tornado on the final leg and went the last five days without food.

After being rescued from the scrapyard and painstakingly restored, Maiden is ready for one last stab at yachting glory.

The Madien yacht is moored in St Katharine Docks in London on Thursday.

“She’s reaching the point now where she’s had her day,” Edwards said at London’s St Katharine Dock, where Maiden is moored.

The yacht, built in 1977, is to be retired next year after she has competed in this year’s Ocean Globe Race — the Whitbread’s successor — which will start from Southampton on the southern English coast on Sept. 10.

Once again Edwards, whose Whitbread crew was the first all-female team to take part, has put together a women-only lineup — this time drawn from all corners of the globe.

From left, Junella King, Kate Ledgard, Vuyisile Jaca, Najiba Noori, Willow Bland and skipper Heather Thomas pose for a photograph on the yacht Maiden in St Katharine Docks in London on Thursday.

The crew, skippered by the UK’s Heather Thomas, includes yachtswomen from India and Antigua as well as an Afghan filmmaker.

Since Maiden’s restoration, Edwards has been sailing the boat around the world as part of her charity work to promote girl’s education and empowerment.

The subject is close to Edwards’ heart after her own experience of discrimination as a young yachtswoman in a male-dominated sport.

One skipper famously rejected her saying his crew would not be the “only racing team in the world with a girl.”

That made her more determined, she said.

When glory came, the yachting world was astounded. Many had not even expecting her team to finish the first leg.

Edwards went on to become the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year trophy.

She hopes this year’s crew will inspire girls and young women who might think sailing is not for “people like them.”

The search for the team took her “far afield” sparked by a meeting with Whoopi Goldberg, patron of her girl’s education charity The Maiden Factor.

“When we met her in New York she looked at me and said: ‘Where are all the black girls in sailing?’ And she was right,” Edwards said.

Edwards’ Maiden Factor works with charities and girls educational programs to help those with no access to education.

Edwards is particularly preoccupied by the plight of women in Afghanistan since the return of the Taliban government two years ago.

“I feel angry... Women are being canceled. I just can’t find the words,” she said.

Since August 2021, girls have been barred from schools and universities and most UN and non-governmental organization jobs.

Afghan video journalist Najiba Noori, 28, who is to accompany the crew, said she was honored.

“My generation had some chances, some opportunities, it was not easy, but we started fighting and we achieved,” she said, adding that she was “really worried” for the next generation.

“Their future is dark, it’s a tragedy,” she said.

After the Ocean Globe race, Maiden is to resume her “world tour,” promoting girl’s education for a last few months before retirement.

Her final itinerary includes Jordan.

Jordan’s late King Hussein was Maiden’s first sponsor after a chance meeting in the US when he gave Edwards his palace phone number and urged her “to give him a shout.”

Since the king’s death in 1999, his daughter Princess Haya bint Hussein has continued to offer support and help.

Hussein was a “great mentor” and encouraged Edwards to ignore critics who thought competitive sailing was too tough for women, she said.

“He was way ahead of his time. Girls in Jordan went to school, university, wore trousers, had jobs and sat in the government,” she said. “He was visionary, an extraordinary man.”

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'On the ship!' Stranded British sailor Susie Goodall rescued

The 29-year-old sailor from Cornwall lost her mast during a "ferocious" storm in the southern Pacific Ocean.

Friday 7 December 2018 17:04, UK

The first picture of British round-the-world yachtswoman Susie Goodall being rescued has been released.

She confirmed she had been rescued with a tweet saying she is "on the ship" after being stranded in the southern Pacific Ocean.

It comes after rescuers reached the sailor, who was stranded 2,000 miles from Cape Horn after her boat was "destroyed".

The image released by Chile's maritime centre showed her being winched aboard a nearby vessel.

The 29-year-old was competing in a 30,000-mile round-the-world race when she lost her mast during a "ferocious" storm in the southern Pacific Ocean.

Goodall, from Falmouth in Cornwall, was lying in fourth place in the Golden Globe Race when 60-knot (69mph) winds and "massive seas" damaged her Rustler 36 yacht DHL Starlight on Wednesday.

ON THE SHIP!!! — SusieGoodallRacing (@susieBgoodall) December 7, 2018

She said she was "thrown across the cabin and was knocked out for a while".

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A distress signal from her yacht was first picked up by the Falmouth coastguard.

They alerted race control and the Chilean maritime search and rescue authorities responsible for that sector of the Pacific.

The authorities contacted a ship 480 miles (772km) southwest of Goodall's position and asked for help.

However, the operation was made more tricky because her vessel's engine is not working, which would have allowed her to pull alongside the cargo ship.

As a result, the captain of the 40,000 ton container ship had to manoeuvre alongside her, before she could be lifted off.

Goodall is the youngest and only female competitor taking part in the non-stop yacht race, which sees competitors sail single-handedly without modern technology or satellite navigation equipment.

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Competitors set off from France on 1 July and the race is expected to take around nine months.

The last time the race took place was in 1968. Sir Robin Knox Johnston was the only person to finish back then.

Eighteen sailors were taking part in this year's race, but more than half have now dropped out.

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Clare Francis, round-the-world yachtswoman

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This edited article about Clare Francis originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1004 published on 6 June 1981.

One morning Clare Francis sat up in bed and made a decision which was to change her whole life. She was going to sail to America. Clare planned to gather a few friends who would accompany her on the trip.

However, things did not turn out the way Clare had planned. One by one, her friends dropped out of the voyage. But Clare was determined to go ahead with the plan even if it meant sailing alone. In her sloop, Gulliver G, Clare finally set off from Falmouth in May, 1973, and arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 37 days later.

She now confesses that she was “terrified the whole way”. Nevertheless, she repeated the voyage three years later, when she entered the Observer’s Single-handed Transatlantic Yacht Race. Britain’s only woman in the race, 28-year-old Clare guided her sloop, Robertson’s Golly, into Newport harbour, completing the 4,800 kilometre crossing in 29 days. She had beaten the women’s record by nearly four days.

On the completion of the race, Clare vowed never to make another solo Atlantic crossing. Apart from wishing to ease the minds of her parents, Clare was feeling exhausted from the tension, and from the burning up of mental and physical energy.

But there was just one last challenge which she wanted to face – to sail around the world. While she was making preparations for the marathon sail, she agreed to marry Jacques Redon, a teacher whom she had met during a 1974 yachting competition.

Clare and Jacques were married in July, 1977, just one month before the Whitbread round-the-world sailing race, which Clare had entered. With a crew of 11, including her husband, Clare set sail from Portsmouth in August. She was the only woman skipper in the race.

Although she had already proved her skill and experience by conquering the dangers of sailing alone across the Atlantic, Clare set sail with a feeling of excitement. The element of danger seemed to encourage her rather than dissuade her from tackling the long voyage ahead. Seven months later, in fifth position, Clare Francis steered the ADC Accutrac over the finishing line at 10.58 p.m. on 25th March, 1978.

She had accepted – and conquered – another challenge.

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13 Top female sailors

Here's our pick of some of the most inspiring yachtswomen. Who's your inspiration?

These 13 women have all achieved excellence as sailors, accomplishing astonishing feats of bravery, stamina and skill at the helm.

From single-handed circumnavigations of the globe to Olympic gold medals, these are some of our favourite female trailblazers in the world of sailing. Who would you add to the list of top female sailors? Tweet us on @ybw

Dame Ellen MacArthur “Courage is not having the energy to go on, it’s going on when you do not have the energy.”

Dame Ellen MacArthur broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, completing the 27,354 nautical mile trip in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds. She beat the previous record by one day, eight hours, 35 minutes and 49 seconds.

The retired British sailor loved life on the water from a young age and has previously competed in the Mini Transat solo transatlantic race and the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world sailing race.

Since then, Ellen has launched two charities, the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation .

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Shirley Robertson, MBE and OBE

This Scottish sailor made it into the history books when she became the first British woman to win two Olympic gold medals at two consecutive Olympic games, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 competing in the Yngling class. She went on to be named female World Sailor of the Year by the International Sailing Federation and was awarded an MBE in 2000 and an OBE in 2005.

Shirley worked hard to raise the profile of the sport, presenting and producing CNN’s Mainsail programme and as a BBC Olympic sailing commentator in Weymouth during the London 2012 Olympics. She is also the only woman to take the helm on the superyacht circuit steering the stunning 45-metre Salperton in three regattas in the Caribbean and Sardina.

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Dame Naomi James “What I did was completely different. Ellen is a professional racer; I was an adventurer.”

Dame Naomi James was the first woman to sail single-handed around the world via Cape Horn. She left Dartmouth in Devon on 9 September 1977 and returned 272 days later on 8 June 1978.

New Zealand-born Naomi was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979 in recognition of her achievements.

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Tracy Edwards

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Tracy Edwards , MBE, entered her first Whitbread Round the World race at the age of 23. She made history by leading the first all-female crew to the finish line of the Whitbread Round the World Race on board Maiden in the 89-90 race. Her 12 crew won two legs and finished second in its class, the best performances in the race by a British boat since 1977. Edwards is currently busy restoring her beloved Maiden to her former glory.

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Clare Francis

Clare Francis, MBE, was working in marketing when she decided to sail singlehandedly across the Atlantic in 1973.  A year later she took part in the Round Britain Race with Eve Bonham, finishing in third place. The high achiever went on to be the first woman to skipper a yacht in the 1977-1978 Whitbread Round the World Race. She and her Swan 65 finished in 5th place. To add to her impressive achievements, the former yachtswoman is now an international bestselling author with 12 fiction novels under her belt and four non fiction. She is also a trustee of the charity Action for M.E., which raises money and awareness for sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome.

Laura Dekker “There were moments where I was like, ‘What the hell am I doing out here?,’ but I never wanted to stop.”

At the age of 13, Laura Dekker announced she wanted to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handedly, prompting the Guinness World Records to stop recognising records for “youngest” sailors.

The Dutch authorities objected to her plans and she fought a 10-month court battle to follow her dream. She eventually persuaded judges to allow her departure after agreeing to upgrade to a bigger boat with better navigation equipment, undertake training in first aid and learn how to cope with sleep deprivation.

In August 2010, she set sail on her epic journey onboard her two-masted ketch and arrived, 5,600 nautical miles later, at Simpson Bay on St Maarten in January 2012 – breaking the world record. She was only 16 years and four months of age.

Jeanne Socrates “I’m not really an armchair and slippers person.”

In 2013, British sailor Jeanne Socrates became the oldest woman to sail solo round the world non-stop. This was the 70-year-old’s third attempt to complete the 25,000-mile circumnavigation on her 38ft yacht Nereida.

After 259 days at sea, Jeanne returned triumphant back to British shores. Earlier this year she was awarded with the Cruising Club of America’s Blue Water Medal following her successful voyage.

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Pippa Wilson, MBE

Pippa Wilson continues to be one of the UK’s best female sailors. She won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class at the 2008 Beijing Olympics along with Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton, gold in two World Championships and gold in one European Championships.

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Sarah Ayton, OBE

Olympic gold medallist Sarah Ayton is another of the UK’s most successful British female sailors. With two Olympic gold medals under her belt, along with two gold World Championship medals and one gold European Championship medal.

Sarah won an Olympic gold medal alongside Shirley Robertson and Sarah Gosling in the Yngling sailing class in 2004, and again in 2008 with Pippa Wilson and Sarah Gosling.

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Sarah Gosling, OBE

This Olympian is another of Britain’s great female sailors, having won two Olympic gold medals, two gold World Championship medals and one gold European Championship medal.

Sarah won all her medals in the Yngling sailing class alongside Shirley Robertson, Pippa Wilson and Sarah Ayton. Already an MBE, Sarah was awarded an OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours list.

Denise “Dee” Caffari, MBE

Record-setting Dee Caffari came to sailing relatively late after spending five years as a physical education teacher. In 2006, Caffari became the first woman to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe against prevailing winds and currents after 178 days at sea, having started in late 2005.

Just under three years later, in February 2009, Dee Caffari completed the Vendee Globe race, setting a new record and becoming the first woman to sail around the world in both directions.

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Kay Cottee, AO 

Awarded the Order of Australia, Cottee was the first woman to successfully complete a solo, non-stop, unassisted circumnavigation of the globe. Cottee achieved the feat in 1988 in her 11m yacht Blackmores First Lady, and she did it in just 189 days.

Cottee established the trip that is routinely tried by sailors chasing speed records and completed it alone, without stopping and without assistance. She was even washed overboard when her yacht capsized in 20 foot waves. Her achievement is as impressive as it is daunting to imagine, and fortunately she didn’t celebrate the achievement alone: nearly 100,000 Australians were awaiting her in Sydney Harbour when she returned.

Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz

And last, but certainly not least, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe is also a sea captain and shipbuilding engineer. Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz set off on February 28, 1976 from the Canary Islands on her own in her 10m yacht Mazurek, returning 401 days later on April 21, 1978.

The Polish sailor has been called the “First Lady of the Oceans” and was inducted into the elite Explorers Club in New York. She narrowly beat New Zealander Naomi James (above) who completed her own circumnavigation on June 8, 1978.

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World News | A newspaper says video of Prince William and Kate should halt royal rumor mill. That’s a tall order.

LONDON (AP) — The late Queen Elizabeth II used to say that the royal family has to be seen to be believed.

That became glaringly evident as the absence of Kate, the Princess of Wales, from public view unleashed an escalating frenzy of wild speculation, skepticism and flat-out conspiracy theories fueled by online armchair detectives.

It’s unlikely to let up even though Kate and husband Prince William have been filmed at a farm shop near their Windsor home — the first footage of the 42-year-old princess since she had abdominal surgery for an unspecified condition two months ago.

The Sun newspaper plastered its front page with “Great to see you again, Kate!” and said it had decided to publish the footage “in a bid to bring an end to what the Palace has called the ‘madness of social media.’”

But that probably won’t stem the tide of feverish and at times fantastical speculation that has swirled about the princess’s condition during her absence.

“The potency and legitimacy of monarchy comes from visibility,” said Anna Whitelock, professor of history of the monarchy at London’s City University. “Visibility is the ‘contract’ between a monarch and their people.”

Evidence of that lies in the steady stream of photos of King Charles III meeting dignitaries and officials released by the palace since the monarch announced in February that he is being treated for an unspecified form of cancer. Charles’ relative openness about his diagnosis was a departure for the generally secretive royal family.

Kate has not been as open, or as successful, at controlling the narrative.

Palace officials gave little detail about Kate’s condition beyond saying that it wasn’t cancer-related, the surgery was successful and recuperation will keep Kate away from public duties until after Easter. That’s likely to mean she’ll be out of sight until her children go back to school on April 17.

Experts who study conspiracy theories say the snowballing conjecture surrounding Kate isn’t so different from how dozens of other “nonstandard beliefs” gain momentum.

“The moment there’s an information gap, people will fill it. And they can fill that space quite quickly … when we have such a fast-moving mediascape,” said Simeon Yates, a professor of digital culture at the University of Liverpool.

Speculation didn’t stop after William and Kate’s Kensington Palace office released a photo of Kate and her children George, Charlotte and Louis on March 10 to coincide with Mother’s Day in the U.K. The move backfired when The Associated Press and other news agencies retracted the picture from publication because it appeared to have been manipulated, fueling even more conjecture.

Although there was no suggestion the image was fake, inconsistencies such as the alignment of Princess Charlotte’s left hand with the sleeve of her sweater suggested it had been altered.

Kate issued a statement acknowledging she liked to “experiment with editing” and apologizing for “any confusion” the photo had caused.

The manipulated photo set off a new round of speculation, some of it centered on unsubstantiated theories that the image wasn’t recent or that Kate had been photoshopped in — alongside even more bizarre claims.

The palace and the British government have tried to ignore the conjecture but occasionally have had to respond. The British Embassy in Kyiv released a statement saying Monday “news about King Charles III death is fake,” after Russian outlets falsely reported the monarch’s demise.

The video clip published by The Sun late Monday appears to show William and Kate smiling as they walked together, carrying shopping bags. It said the footage was taken Saturday in Windsor, west of London.

The Sun quoted Nelson Silva, who said he filmed the video, as saying, “Kate looked happy and relaxed. They look happy just to be able to go to a shop and mingle.”

Kensington Palace did not comment on the video.

Yates said that “Kategate” resonates because so many people in the U.K., the United States and around the world feel emotionally invested in the royal family — an institution that’s both public and secretive.

“There’s quite an emotional thrill of thinking, ‘I know there’s a secret going on,’” he said. “There’s an enjoyment in thinking, well you know, ‘I know something special.’ It makes you feel better.”

Daniel Allington, who studies conspiracy theories at King’s College London, agreed that the Kate speculation has its roots in people’s emotional connection to the British royal family.

“Because of that, they want to talk about them, they want to know about them, and when there is very little known, people end up speculating. They are trying to make something out of nothing,” Allington said.

He also predicted that quieting the international frenzy won’t be a simple task.

“Once people start doubting, they can doubt practically everything. Once people start going on that track of speculation about the truth being hidden, it’s very difficult to get them off that track,” he said.

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With less than five months to go before the Olympic Games Paris 2024 , the nation's senior artistic gymnasts were not just eyeing the kudos of best in the nation in the all-around and on each apparatus, but also jostling for position for a precious Olympic spot.

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• Ondine Achampong 55.950
• Ruby Evans 53.200
• Abigail Martin 52.450
• Amelie Morgan 51.600
• Georgia-Mae Fenton 50.450
• Mali Morgan 50.400
• Ruby Stacey 50.100
• Emily Roper 50.050

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British Gymnastics Championships 2024 – men's senior all-around final results

• Joe Fraser 84.900
• Jake Jarman 84.350
• Courtney Tulloch 80.150
• Reuben Ward 79.950
• Adam Tobin 78.150
• Luke Whitehouse 77.500
• Cameron Lynn 77.450
• Oakley Banks 76.650

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• Jake Jarman 14.300
• Joe Fraser 14.200
• Sam Mostowfi 13.800
• Oakley Banks 13.700
• Cameron Lynn 13.650
• Remell Robinson-Bailey 13.050
• Adam Tobin 13.000
• James Hall 12.900
• Jacob Edwards 12.850

British Gymnastics Championships 2024 – women's senior vault final results

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• Shannon Archer 13.250
• Abigail Martin 13.025
• Emily Roper 13.000
• Grace Davies 12.800
• Abigail Roper 12.700
• Mali Morgan 12.625
• Tiegan Trafford 12.625
• Ruby Stacey 6.225

British Gymnastics Championships 2024 – men's senior pommel horse final results

• Max Whitlock 15.250
• Jake Jarman 14.150
• Joe Fraser 13.950
• Reuben Ward 13.900
• Patrick Watkinson 13.250
• Cameron Lynn 13.150
• Iwan Scrivens 13.000
• Finlay Morgan 12.100

British Gymnastics Championships 2024 – women's senior uneven bars final results

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• Ruby Stacey 13.850
• Amelie Morgan 13.650
• Emily Roper 13.300
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• Becky Downie 12.900
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British Gymnastics Championships 2024 – men's senior rings final results

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• Courtney Tulloch 14.600
• James Hall 13.750
• Luke Whitehouse 13.050
• Joe Cemlyn-Jones 12.950
• Oakley Banks 12.750
• Reuben Ward 12.550
• Remell Robinson-Bailey 9.250

British Gymnastics Championships 2024 – women's senior beam final results

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• Amelie Morgan 13.450
• Abigail Martin 12.650
• Abigail Roper 12.400
• Charlotte Booth 12.350
• Mali Morgan 12.050
• Tilly Wright 11.350
• Emily Roper 10.700

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• Adam Tobin 13.950
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• Max Whitlock 13.700
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• Joe Cemlyn-Jones 13.550
• Alexander Yolshin-Cash 11.750

British Gymnastics Championships 2024 – women's senior floor final results

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• Emily Roper 12.700
• Abigail Roper 12.500
• Grace Davies 12.450
• Abigail Martin 11.900
• Bethany Rayment 10.800
• Ema Grace Kandalova 9.700

British Gymnastics Championships 2024 – men's senior high bar final results

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• Reuben Ward 13.350
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• Patrick Watkinson 12.000
• Charlie Harvey-Lloyd 11.600
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