It's not the male sailors at whatever level saying, oh, women shouldn't be here.

They're like, why aren't women here? Why aren't there more women in this sport?

Why isn't there a women's Volvo team? Why hasn't there been a team for 12 years?

Hey, this is Anna Vinner's live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your

host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show.

Greetings. I'm Andy Schell, and this is 59 degrees north, a podcast about sailing. This is episode

number 115. This episode is brought to you by you guys, my listeners. Go to 59-north.com

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calendar in 2016 that's shaping up, doing a trip BVI to Trinidad and back

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coming back to Annapolis via Key West. That's going to be in April. Just posted that trip the other day.

And then Transatlantic next summer. July and August, sometime

around there. It's not posted yet, but it will be soon. We've already got one spot sold, so only three left for that. Going to retrace our steps from Arcturus's passage in 2011. So they'll go back up to Canada, up to Halifax, up to St. John's in Newfoundland, and then across to Crookhaven, Ireland. So check that out. Again, 59-north.com slash offshore. If you can't afford to sail with us, but still want to support the show, go to the website, buy some coffee, buy a hat, buy a visor, buy t-shirts, or just send me a nice email. It's super nice hearing from everybody. I feel like I get emails from new people every week. So they do really help.

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All right, special episode this week. I have a fascination with the Volvo Ocean Race. I've had

several Volvo sailors on the podcast before.

This is the first female Volvo sailor I've had on board the podcast. This is Sarah Hostwriter from Team SCA.

I met Sarah in New York in April when we got to go sailing with her and Elity from Team SCA on their TP52 in New York City. We didn't get a chance to do a podcast in person then because there was a lot of other media folks around and just too busy. So I told Sarah then that I wanted to touch base with her after the race. And here it is. I finally got in touch with her. She's in the UK. She just completed the transatlantic race on a, what was it, a

trimaran. She talks about the type, I forget what it was, but I got to sail with Paul Larson,

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