Female Heroes of the Sea and Sailors

[chasm]

This is my first post on the CF -- breaking my lurker status to add Liz Clark to the list of Female Sailors.

I've been reading about Liz for the last 10 years or so. She's not a racer, but instead a surfer, sailor, and environmentalist who is taking her sweet time to go 'round. On her blog she writes, "I travel at a pace not much faster than you can run. Weather, swell, and tides dictate my days." I think she's 11 or 12 years into her voyage.



Inspiring story about a woman pursuing a dream and something she believes in!

[alctel]

Lisa Blair

Got dismasted in the Southern Ocean

Quite an amazing and detailed account of how she managed to save the boat

https://lisablairsailstheworld.com/b...reeltrdkw5ti8e

[deblen]

There have been a few lady firsts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Kool

Len

[Don C L]

Originally Posted by chasm

This is my first post on the CF -- breaking my lurker status to add Liz Clark to the list of Female Sailors.

I've been reading about Liz for the last 10 years or so. She's not a racer, but instead a surfer, sailor, and environmentalist who is taking her sweet time to go 'round. On her blog she writes, "I travel at a pace not much faster than you can run. Weather, swell, and tides dictate my days." I think she's 11 or 12 years into her voyage.



Inspiring story about a woman pursuing a dream and something she believes in!

Welcome aboard chasm! Great addition.
I may have missed it but did anyone post this amazing sailor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v4RYcfIaxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooIxHVXgLbc

[GordMay]

Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Chasm.

[QBF]

Let us not forget Linda Dashew, the wife of designer Steve Dashew. Linda raced with Steve on their D-Class Beowulf catamarans with Steve at the helm and Linda on the wire.

Linda co-authored the Dashews wonderful books which the Dashew's made available as free downloads from their website.

Linda now has gone more than 250,000 miles in sail and power boats, moving from multihulls to monohulls, to their latest boat, their FPB 78.

[Steadman Uhlich]

Originally Posted by QBF

Let us not forget Linda Dashew, the wife of designer Steve Dashew. Linda raced with Steve on their D-Class Beowulf catamarans with Steve at the helm and Linda on the wire.

Linda co-authored the Dashews wonderful books which the Dashew's made available as free downloads from their website.

Linda now has gone more than 250,000 miles in sail and power boats, moving from multihulls to monohulls, to their latest boat, their FPB 78.

Thank you for adding Linda Dashew.

Back in the 1980s, I read all the books (before the internet was popular) I could about long distance voyaging. The Dashew's were among my favorites to read, and I remember thinking at the time "I wish I had a woman/wife/partner/spouse like Linda with whom to travel the world in a sailboat. I admired (and still do) what the Dashew's accomplished. Steve Dashew was a lucky man in many respects.

Bravo Linda!

[mglonnro]

What little I've seen of this year's Golden Globe Race, it seems absolutely terrifying, so I'm nominating:

Susie Goodall

Susie Goodall is an offshore and ocean sailing instructor who was introduced to the sport at the age of 3 and raced Laser dinghies before moving into teaching. In recent times, she has been skippering a 60ft sail training/expedition yacht in Scandinavia. She says: “When I was young, all holidays were spent sailing and my weekends were taken up racing Lasers, before I started teaching sailing on the Isle of Wight. I’ve spent a few years working in the superyacht industry before taking up sail training.”

https://goldengloberace.com/skipper/susie-goodall/

[gamayun]

Originally Posted by mglonnro

What little I've seen of this year's Golden Globe Race, it seems absolutely terrifying, so I'm nominating:

Susie Goodall


https://goldengloberace.com/skipper/susie-goodall/

Here, here! She's having an amazing race. What she's dealing with now gives me heart palpitations. I'm in complete awe of all the GGR skippers, those still in as well as those who made the attempt. It is so much harder out there than it looks....GO SUSIE!!!!

[JPA Cate]

You all might be interested in this thread: http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ws-204445.html

Ann

[gamayun]

Originally Posted by JPA Cate

You all might be interested in this thread: http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ws-204445.html

Ann

Thanks, Ann! I've been dropping on that thread from time to time. Other than the updates on Facebook, it's my Go To place for the GGR. Lots of great comments and analysis

[QBF]

Here is another female sailor that deserves recognition.

Anne Caseneuve died of cancer on Thursday, November 19, 2015 at the age of 51 years.



This was one year to the day after she sailed her Trimaran ANEO to victory in the Rhum category in the 2014 Route du Rhum. Anne Caseneuve sailed the race knowing she was sick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi5pSG1HUc

[swordds]

Thank you to all for these posts. For me it is a treasure trove of information as I have been looking for books and information for my 10 year old granddaughter to help make her aware of the many possibilities she has for her future; not just related to sailing but to any field of endeavor she may chose. I especially appreciate that the posts have not been limited just to life savers but has also included many women who have successfully chosen a path less traveled.

[hamburking]

I highly recommend this book for your daughter, and for all daughters:

https://www.rebelgirls.co/products/g...or-rebel-girls

...and yes, Jessica Watson is in there!

[double u]

Originally Posted by double u

my foremost heroine of the oceans is the lady*that
for three years patiently let her man spend all his sparetime building a boat without any recriminations that he might be neglecting her
then followed this landlocked mariner, that never had sailed on saltwater before, onboard his selfbuilt boat & trusted him with her life
spent 7 years of her twenties circumnavigating with him under conditions of utmost frugality & actually enjoying this spartan, on primitivity bordering life of adventure (bucket-loo...) all the while being a cheerful companion & lover
initiated after 1 year ashore the pruchase of another boat & again set off with him direction South Pacific
bore their child halfway around the world,*never missing*a nightwatch, to deliver it in their dream-location, in raiatea
completed their second rtw with the baby on board, mastering several heartstopping episodes in the Red Sea...
after three years again set off with their son & him on their third voyage, schooled the at-times-intractable primary-schooler on board to return after another circumnavigation full of unforgettable experiences
took up the forgotten landlocked life after 18 years "away", smoothed his "passage ashore", made & still makes a success of it
now far along in her fifties has stayed young at heart & is making approving sound when he is ruminating about "the next*boat"...
she is my true heroine, the*lady of my life, companion of 39 wife of 29 years & first mate for more than 100000 blue-water miles, the woman indispensible for the fullfilment of all my dreams, whom I'll be deeply grateful to till my dying day

update March 16th 2020:
...the lady that again worked with me readying & equipping a boat for blue water & voyaged with me a 4th time to our beloved "South Seas" making the time unforgettable for me & our visiting son (now 30...time flies)...