PHOTO COURTESY SAILSail magazine and Hanse Yachts are presenting a conversation with racing sailor Cole Brauer and cruising sailor Lin Pardey during the Annapolis Sailboat Show in October. The duo has 50 years of combined sailing experience and will discuss such common threads as the spirit of passagemaking and the impact of self-reliance.
Sail editor-in-chief Wendy Mitman Clarke and managing editor Lydia Mullan will moderate the discussion and question-and-answer session, which is scheduled for Oct. 11 at 4 p.m. in the Jack C. Taylor Conference Center at the U.S. Naval Academy. Click here for more information and to purchase tickets.
The Annapolis Sailboat Show is scheduled for Oct. 10-14.
“We always strive to celebrate all the aspects of the sport and the life in the pages of Sail, and I can’t think of two better sailors to help us do this,” Clarke said in a statement. “Equally compelling is how they are of such different generations, encompassing a period of so much change in terms of sailing, women in the sport and the ways we communicate our stories of sailing.”
Brauer is the first American woman to race solo and nonstop around the world. The youngest and only female sailor in the 2023-24 Global Solo Challenge, she sailed the Class 40 First Light and finished second.
Pardey and her husband, Larry, who died in 2020, built two boats: the 24-foot Seraffyn and the 29-foot Taleisin. They sailed the engineless cutters more than 200,000 nautical miles around the world, including voyaging around the Great Capes against the prevailing winds. Lin Pardey chronicled their travels in nearly a dozen books. Her latest book, Passages: Cape Horn and Beyond, will be published in October.
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