After having spent more than a decade of my life covering the sport of sailing, I thought that I’d experienced it all: Volvo Open 70s, super maxis, mini maxis, IMOCA 60s, and high-performance dinghies, not to mention plenty of well-sailed Corinthian-level monohulls. But then I received an email from Nicola Breymaier, inviting me to join her husband, Ryan Breymaier, one of America’s most accomplished single-handed skippers, in San Francisco aboard the 105-foot trimaran, Lending Club 2 (ex Banque Populaire VII). The email had barely arrived by the time I was booking my plane tickets to SFO.
I knew the day was going to be special when … More
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Chances are, if a woman were to tell you that she makes a living by sailing around the world, you would probably think that she’s living the dream. After all, not only is she making it in a traditionally male-dominated sport, she is also getting paid to be out on a boat on the sunny ocean — not behind a desk in an office somewhere. And that’s living.
Well, there actually are 15 women who are doing that very thing right now. They are called Team SCA, and they are the first all-female sailing team to compete in the Volvo Ocean Race … More
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I sailed from California to Hawaii twice when I was a teenager, once with my Dad on a 25′ sailboat and once as the navigator for an elderly couple that was planning on retiring to a sailboat and sailing all over the world.
The first time you make a major ocean crossing is definitely a unique experience. You head out to sea and within hours, you watch the coastline disappear and all of a sudden you’re completely alone … More
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