A GLOBE OF HER OWN

The Golden Globe Race winner had full intentions of winning the latest edition of the adventure seeker’s ultimate round-the-world race. So, it should come as no surprise that the South African yachtswoman now finds her place in the record books.

HERB MCCORMICK

IT’S early evening on April 27. The waters are calm off Les Sable d’Olonne, France, and out from the fog emerges the 36-foot cutter Minnehaha. The one soul on board is 40-year-old South African Kirsten Neuschäfer—the Golden Globe Race’s heroine and, at this moment, the first woman to win a solo around-the-world race. Exactly 235 days earlier, as the lone female in a fleet of 16 seasoned singlehanded sailors, she’d set forth from France with a singular objective, and as she crossed the finish line, she may well have been the person least surprised by the outcome. After all, from the moment she’d entered the unique “retro” highseas, high-stakes contest, she was in it to win it—never mind that she’d never raced offshore in her entire life. “When I signed…

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