Nikki, Mia, & Emma // Debriefing Our Inaugural All-Women's Passage

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode, Nikki, Emma, and Mia sit down together in the UK to debrief 59° North's inaugural all-women's sailing passage. It was an epic heavy weather trip. We sailed over a thousand miles from Marstrand, Sweden to Portsmouth, England, with six female crewmembers. This all-women passage is one of many steps towards a more inclusive and equitable sailing community. In the episode, we discuss the details of this passage, including weather routing decisions and medical situations onboard. We also talk about the big-picture goals behind this passage, and what the three of us learned along the way.

We will be running another women's trip next summer on FALKEN! We also have a women's happy hour event coming up soon in Annapolis. And we have more announcements coming soon about some changes in the way we do things at 59° North that we hope will make an impact.

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0:00.0	the goal of this is to not is not to always be sailing with all female crews the goal is to
0:05.4	you know strengthen our mixed crews and pull more people into sailing and give them more experience
0:10.4	to go back to their own boats or to go on to other things or to come back sailing with us on a
0:15.3	mixed gender trip and make those trips even stronger and make everyone's sailing experiences better
0:20.3	including the men who sail
0:21.8	with us. And I think, yeah, us having these experiences is great. And then sort of talking with
0:30.0	and training our own staff on these kinds of things is also something I'm excited about.
0:34.4	And then sailing with women who maybe then will come back and sail
0:38.3	in a mixed gender team like all of those things are going to hopefully grow um uh yeah that
0:45.4	the the teams that we sail with or the crews that we have hey on the wind i am finally back in
0:51.9	the u.s after a very long summer of sailing all over on all sorts of
0:56.8	different boats, which was amazing, but it's really, really good to be home too. I just finished
1:02.2	a trip with Nikki and Mia and six female crew for our first ever all women's passage that
1:08.7	has been a couple years in the making for me
1:11.4	thinking of and planning this trip with 59 North. So we recorded a podcast,
1:17.2	debriefing the trip, which was really fun. And yeah, we're going to do it again next year.
1:23.3	So you can join us, ladies, you can join us in Iceland next year, and you can go to 59-north.com
1:31.5	slash 2023 to find that passage and sign up.
1:36.1	We have a couple other things in the works in terms of just trying to get more women involved in sailing and offshore sailing and in all the different
1:46.7	things we do at 59 North and a general sort of inclusivity mission that we've been talking about
1:52.9	for a while and it's exciting to get some things rolling on that just to make more opportunities
1:59.8	for people to come sailing who haven't historically been
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