Tracy Edwards // MAIDEN

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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#316. Tracy Edwards led the first all-female round-the-world crew in the 1989-90 Whitbread Race aboard MAIDEN. Following that race, Tracy was the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy and was awarded an MBE honor. In 2014, after more than three decades since her Whitbread success, Tracy bought MAIDEN back. A few years later, MAIDEN was sailing again and a major documentary about their 1989-90 Whitbread Race was released. The Maiden Factor foundation focuses on education for girls around the world. You can find and support them at the maindenfactor.org

ON THE WIND is exclusively sponsored by Dakota Lithium, an American company building tough, long-lasting lithium-iron-phosphate batteries for a variety of applications. We just installed 200 aH of Dakota Lithium on SPICA in Sweden, and are preparing for a major lithium conversion on ICEBEAR, our Swan 59. Check them out at dakotalithium.com.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello. This is Emma. I'm just popping in here at the top of this episode to say a huge happy birthday to the Andy Shell. It was yesterday, actually, January 25th, but if you haven't wished him a happy birthday, please do. And I also want to say a big thank you to Andy for helping make this episode possible.
0:23.1	At the end of my interview a couple months ago when we were sitting in Antigua, he asked me
0:28.4	who I would interview if I could interview anyone. And I said Tracy not expecting it to happen
0:34.4	just a couple months later. So thank you, Andy, and thank you Tracy, and thank you
0:39.7	all for listening. This season of On the Wind is sponsored exclusively by Dakota Lithium,
0:45.7	a lithium battery company based out of North Dakota where the winters can get cold. Up there on the
0:50.7	Great Plains, the landscape can be unforgiving, high winds, deep snow, long nights.
0:55.3	Dakota lithium was born out of this rugged landscape, a battery designed to endure to help you do what you love longer, a battery made to last.
1:03.3	Dakota lithium has harnished the power of lithium chemistry and combined it with North Dakota grit to build you a better battery.
1:10.0	Their lithium chemistry is the Life
1:12.2	Po 4, sometimes you've seen it referred to as. It's basically lithium iron phosphate, which is
1:17.5	different from the batteries in your phone or computer and safer for use in marine applications.
1:22.9	In fact, I just put 200 amp hours of Dakota lithium batteries on Spica, our little boat here in Sweden,
1:29.3	and we are gearing up to do a lithium battery conversion on Ice Bear sometime over the next year or two whenever we can fit it in our season.
1:37.7	So check out Dakota Lithium.com.
1:39.8	They have an interesting origin story, and it's an American company and really cool people to work with.
1:45.5	We've enjoyed working with them on Spica and on Ice Bear.
1:48.6	Thanks again to Dakota Lithium for sponsoring this season of the podcast.
1:52.0	Again, check them out at dakotalithium.com.
1:55.5	You know, my mum always used to say, if you don't like the way the world looks, change it.
2:00.2	And even if you only change your world and the way you see things, you don't like the way the world looks change it and even if you only change
2:01.7	your world and the way you see things you don't know what effect that will have that rippling effect
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