The Kamla Show: Tracy Edwards on Sailing The Maiden Around The World

Length

00:25:38

Producer

Kamla Bhatt

Category

Informational Talk Show

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Tracy Edwards is a sailor, entrepreneur, author and a social activist. Edwards is a trailblazer, who captioned the first all-female sailing crew sailed around the world. This was in 1989 when Edwards and her crew successfully participated and completed the Whitbread race. Their journey around the world took 9 months and many of them were skeptic about their ability to finish the race. They proved the skeptics wrong and successfully completed the race in their sailing boat called Maiden. first all-female crew to sail in this race. The name of their sailing boat was called Maiden.