Boating New Zealand – April 2018

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Showers – there aren’t any. Te best you can hope for is the

occasional rain squall, which sees the crew sitting under the

boom like a fock of sparrows, scrubbing the grime away.

Food & cooking – it’s all freeze-dried stuf and, I’m reliably

told, despite the exotic labels every meal tastes pretty much

the same. Everyone swallows up to 20 vitamin pills a day,

and losing as much as 12kg on each Leg is not uncommon.

It’s dangerous – everyone knows it’s an extreme event.

But for me the reality hit home while talking to Brad

Farrand – the Kiwi bowman on Team AkzoNobel. As

bowman, he was the lucky soul winched up the mast to

unravel the mess when the main wrapped itself around a

running backstay.

It was during the Cape Town-to-Melbourne Leg 3, deep

hope happens after this race is that all these women in the race get
together and this continuity can happen.”
McDonald said getting more women involved in the wider sailing
and marine industry as designers and engineers was another factor.
Brouwer said the introduction of the Volvo 70 class in the
2005–06 race initially reduced opportunities for women to compete.
“The boat became a lot more physical, which didn’t help the
women’s teams. It became an assumption that if the men were
struggling with them, then women wouldn’t be able to handle it.”

But, she added, “times are changing”, with a greater acceptance of
mixed teams in events such as the Nacra 17 class at the Olympics.
“World Sailing [formerly ISAF] took the lead on that. The aim was to
have gender equality in Olympic sailing by 2024, but it looks like they
will reach that in 2020, and set a real example.”
Bianca Cook – on Turn the Tide on Plastic – is the first Kiwi
woman to feature in the race since Keryn McMaster, Bridget Suckling
and Sharon Ferris in 2001/02. She is also the first New Zealand woman
to compete on a mixed-sex boat.
“I have sailed with some fantastic women over the years and I’m
proud to be representing all of them.”

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