What occurs if you put a younger racing rockstar and a lifelong cruising legend on stage collectively—after which throw a bunch of questions at them? That was the concept kicked off SAIL’s first Rockstars and Legends occasion, with Cole Brauer and Lin Pardey assembly in particular person for the primary time and delighting an viewers of sailors with their insights, tales, experiences, recommendation, and humor. The occasion, sponsored by Hanse Yachts held through the Annapolis Sailboat Present in October, explored widespread threads of their distinctive careers that embody numerous elements of the crusing world, offset by 50 years. Becoming a member of them on stage was SAIL’s Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke and Managing Editor Lydia Mullan.
To provide extra sailors the chance to listen to the distinctive dialogue between these two exceptional sailors, SAIL has made the total video out there right here.
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Cole Brauer is the primary American girl to race a sailboat solo and nonstop across the globe, competing because the youngest particular person and solely feminine sailor within the 2023-24 International Solo Problem, ending second. Alongside the best way, she amassed half 1,000,000 followers on Instagram, introducing tons of of 1000’s of individuals to the world of ocean racing.
Lin Pardey actually wrote the ebook—many books—on cruising, inspiring generations of sailors to embrace the ethos of go small, go easy, go now. Over 50 years, she and her late husband, Larry, constructed two boats—each engine free and underneath 30 toes—and sailed greater than 200,000 miles, together with two circumnavigations and doubling Cape Horn.
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