Solo round-the-world sailor Cole Brauer:first two weeks I cried every single day

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/08/solo-sailer-cole-brauer-interview

by mmphosis • 2 years ago

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Cole Brauer, the girl who “didn’t grow up in a yacht club”, has been fortunate to get financial backing from a sponsor who is more of a philanthropist, supporting her throughout and demanding little in return.

romwell5• 2 years ago

Why did you pick this particular quote to highlight?

Sounds like you want to make a point, but I'm not sure what it is.

Hopefully, everyone here understands that this sort of achievement — like any expedition — requires financial backing, and not something one can do on a whim.

ThrowawayTestr5• 2 years ago

The article is about how tough being a girl sailor is. It's undercut in the first paragraph with the inclusion of the generous benefactor.

redmajor12• 2 years ago

This article is fluff. Teenage women have solo circumnavigated, such as:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania_Aebi

ryanwhitney• 2 years ago

Aebi wasn’t non-stop.

satori99• 2 years ago

Jessica Watson's attempt (16yo) was non-stop, but fell just short of the required 21,600nm for an official record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Watson

romwell5• 2 years ago

This comment is fluff.

Other HN users have also linked to Wikipedia articles.

unit149• 2 years ago

https://www.blueanarchy.org/holdfast/

Not quite circumnavigation, but this doc features a crew of anarchists that fix-up a vessel and sail to Haiti.

gregschlom• 2 years ago

By the way, if you're into round-the-world solo racing, this is your reminder that the Vendee Globe just started last, Sunday!

https://www.vendeeglobe.org/ and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D2712YsGHIV9kjfOTbl... for the onboard videos.

golergka• 2 years ago

This article seems to be more concerned with the social crusade and PR effect of the trip rather than the actual voyage. I have nothing about this political goal per se — what's wrong with promoting a sport and creating a more accessible image for it? — but it's just not that interesting to read about.

walrus01• 2 years ago

I see a lot of people in this thread who probably couldn't solo circumnavigate Long Island in a Catalina 30 that suddenly think they're entitled to criticize this accomplishment. Go try 130 days of 4 hours sleep a night through the roughest oceans on the planet in a tiny sailboat.

romwell5• 2 years ago

You're being way too generous assuming people who voice opinions here would have the slightest clue of what to do with a sailboat.

(This applies to me first and foremost)

ThrowawayTestr5• 2 years ago

This post has 14 comments and only two are negative. What are you talking about?

crummy• 2 years ago

I've heard no one escapes a solo sail of longer than a week or two without going a little crazy. I wonder if Starlink (and having that connection to the rest of the world) changes that a little bit.

Solo round-the-world sailor Cole Brauer:first two weeks I cried every single day

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