GQEBERHA homegirl Kirsten Neuschafer, who has become the first woman to win a solo round-the-world yacht race and break records – didn’t know she was the winner as she approached the finishing line of the Golden Globe Race at Sables d’Olonne, in France, this week.
That’s because the retro race, a non-stop event in the footsteps of the first-ever non-stop solo circumnavigator, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, forbids the use of any technology