![]() ![]() Maiden, the eponymous documentary by Alex Holmes, out Friday, chronicles an intense 167 days at sea, wrought in ’80s pastels, frothy blue seas, and a whole lot of silver trophies. ![]() ![]() Girls are for shagging when we get into port.” She got the job, but only after going directly to the boat’s owner.īy the end of that first race, Edwards had one question: “how do I change this so I don’t have to fit in?” Thus began her journey toward captaining an all-female crew aboard a sailboat named Maiden in the famously difficult 1989–1990 Whitbread, a 32,000 nautical mile race from England to Uruguay to Australia to New Zealand and back, with a stop in America. The skipper, Edwards recalled, had responded by saying that it was “absolutely not happening. Though she had accumulated about 250,000 ocean miles sailing charter boats in her late teens-after leaving school in Wales and falling in with hippie sailors in Greece-the young Brit had faced resistance when she asked to join a Whitbread crew as a cook. ![]() There’s “230 blokes on this race having the time of their lives, and four gals,” Edwards remembered thinking as she sailed in the 1985–1986 Whitbread Round the World Race, a competition in which crews of variously sized boats circumnavigate the globe. Tracy Edwards spent her early 20s in a literal sea of men. ![]()
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