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Woman Wins Round-the-World Race for the First Time

Female Sailor Does What
No Woman Has Done Before

Jul 28, 2018 11:23 AM CDT

Female Sailor Does What No Woman Has Done Before

Wendy Tuck takes first in the grueling Clipper Race

(Newser) - A female skipper has won the Clipper round-the-world yacht race for the first time—and another female skipper took second, the BBC reports. "I can't believe it," winner Wendy Tuck tells the Daily Telegraph in Liverpool, England, after finishing the last leg of the 40,000-nautical-mile race...

Round the World Yacht Race
Claims Another Victim

Nov 20, 2017 2:47 PM CST

Round the World Yacht Race Claims Another Victim

Crew member on one of the yachts swept overboard, buried at sea

(Newser) - A 60-year-old with more than four decades of experience as a sailor was killed during the UK's Clipper Round the World yacht race Saturday. Simon Speirs, a crew member on the Great Britain yacht since the race began on Aug. 20, was helping to change its sails amid gale-force...

Insane-Sounding
Ocean Race 'Round
the World Has Begun

Aug 31, 2015 4:00 PM CDT

Insane-Sounding Ocean Race 'Round the World Has Begun

Some of the contenders in the Clipper yacht challenge have zero experience

(Newser) - A competition deemed "human will against nature" by its founder (the first person to ever sail, solo, nonstop around the world) officially kicked off today in London, with a motley assortment of mostly run-of-the-mill folks vying to win the 40,000-nautical-mile contest that will reach six continents, NBC News...

Sailors Rescued in
Round-the-World
Yacht Race

Apr 2, 2012 1:40 AM CDT

Sailors Rescued in Round-the-World Yacht Race

Boat limping to SF after Pacific wave injures crew members

(Newser) - Two injured sailors have been rescued after a "monstrous foaming swell" washed over an Australian boat participating in a 10-team round-the-world yacht race. Two others in the 18-person crew also seriously hurt were still on board yesterday off the coast of California. The Geraldton Western Australia is expected to...