THE RELUCTANT HEROINE
Aug 19, 2021
4 minutes
Words Laura Hodgetts
After my first bluewater crossing from California to Hawaii, people thought that it was really cool that I had just got the sailing bug and got on a boat.
When I made the return journey, which can be a tricky passage, suddenly sailors in San Francisco started to take me seriously, like ‘OK, you did this, a lot of people ship their boats back to avoid making this crossing.’ By the time I left on a solo circumnavigation three years ago, in Windfola, a 1985 Sabre 34 mark I, women especially were telling me that I was inspiring to them.
I was a bit resistant to it at
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