Cruisers awarded
Yachting World|March 2024
Kirsten Neuschäfer, the winner of the Golden Globe Race and the first woman ever to win a solo nonstop around the world ocean race, is among the skippers honoured in the Cruising Club of America's 2023 awards.
Cruisers awarded

Neuschäfer is the recipient of the CCA's Blue Water Medal, awarded for 'meritorious seamanship and adventure upon the sea'.

The CCA praised Neuschäfer's 'tremendous effort, determination, and skill' exhibited during her 235-day solo circumnavigation, going so far as scraping barnacles from her Cape George 36 Minnehaha's hull by hand in the Southern Ocean.

This story is from the March 2024 edition of Yachting World.

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