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Do you love Sam for ability, or is it her looks:laugher ?
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I appluad the women that do not let themselves be constrained, but they are few. I use to be on a sight for A/C Cobras. It was very right wing, and the fellas were falling all over Sarah Palin, because they thought she was hot. It had nothing to do with her capabilities, or lack of them. Don't let yourself become a cheerleader for women just because they are women. Become thier cheerleader, because they are capable!.........i2f
I believe you don't know very well Sam or its sailing performance as a sail racer.
All right, she is good looking, but on the last Vendee Globe, the toughest sail race on the planet, against the 30 best solo sailors she finished in fourth place. All the guys that arrived in front had new boats, top of the art, made for that race. Her boat was an older one, from the previous generation.
The popularity and approval that she rightly deserves comes not from unknowledgeable people or from the women's rights movement, but from the racing community and from sailors all round the world.
Sam Davies, Bio, Projets, Journal de Bord, Transat Jacques Vabre 2009, Vendée Globe 2012
She is not the only one. On the same race, Dee Caffari finished 6th. Some time before that she had made a solo nonstop circumnavigation the wrong way around, I mean, against the dominant winds, just for training (and believe me that's even more difficult than a Vendee).
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Both girls regularly team with the biggest names in duo ocean racing. They are invited neither for their looks, nor to be women, but because they are among the best sailors.
They are not the only ones; you have the most famous of them all, Ellen McArthur:
"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…
… Second place in the 2000-2001 edition of the Vendée Globe, with a time of 94 days, 4 hours and 25 minutes…
In 2005, MacArthur beat Francis Joyon's existing world record for a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation. MacArthur in the trimaran B&Q/Castorama sailed 27,354 nautical miles (50,660 km) at an average speed of 15.9 knots. Her time of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes 33 seconds beat Joyon's then world record time by 1 day, 8 hours, 35 minutes and 49 seconds. Ellen had no more than 20 minutes' sleep at a time, having to be on constant lookout day and night." …
Ellen MacArthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And there are the younger girls, among them I like particularly Jeanne Gregoire, Isabelle Joschke, Luce Molinier, Daniela Klein and Marine Feuerstein.
Luce Molinier : objectif Transats
Isabelle JOSCHKE
Daniela Klein
Marine Feuerstein
All these women have something in common, they are sailors, they race and in their class they are among the best, men and women all together.
But you are right, they are a lot less than men, but not worse, and their number is increasing every year.
Regards
Paulo