Nikki Henderson // Youngest Clipper Race Skipper Ever
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
#321. Nikki Henderson is the youngest person ever to have skippered a yacht in the Clipper Round the World race, coming second in the 2017/18 edition of the race at 25 years old. Since the age of 18 Nikki has pursued a career in professional sailing, and has earned worldwide respect for her accomplishments. She has been a guest-skipper for MAIDEN, raced on an all-women's team in the Race 2 Alaska, been through the Suez Canal and many times across the Atlantic. Nikki recently sailed on ICEBEAR with Andy in Antigua, where they recorded this long and inspirational chat about Nikki's career and philosophy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey gang, welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Andy Schell. It is the last episode of our |
| 0:06.0 | winter 2021 season. This is a big one. I'm going to hand this over to Emma to do the |
| 0:13.2 | intro, the proper intro, because today is National Women's Day, and I thought, who |
| 0:18.3 | better to introduce that than Emma. But to give you some |
| 0:21.5 | context, I interviewed Nikki Henderson down in Antigua about a week and a half ago now. She and Pat |
| 0:28.3 | Walters, Pat, a producer on Radio Lab, awesome podcast. If you don't listen to that, you should. |
| 0:33.3 | They were sailing with me just for a week. So what follows is the interview I did with Nikki, |
| 0:38.9 | but I did like a 10-minute sort of pre-interview with Pat |
| 0:42.2 | just to both get his impressions on ocean sailing |
| 0:44.5 | because he'd never been offshore before |
| 0:45.8 | and also to get his impressions on the interview I did with Nikki. |
| 0:49.6 | Pat was kind of our sound engineer. |
| 0:51.6 | So he was sitting in on this episode, |
| 0:55.7 | but didn't actually participate. |
| 0:56.9 | And with that, |
| 0:59.2 | I'm going to hand you over to Emma Garshagin, |
| 1:02.4 | who has a special Women's Day pre-intro for you. |
| 1:04.6 | Then we'll go into my intro with Pat and then the full interview with Nikki. |
| 1:06.7 | We'll be taking a break after this |
| 1:08.3 | and we'll be back with new episodes |
| 1:10.5 | in about four to six weeks. |
| 1:12.6 | Until then, hold fast. |
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