Tracy Edwards

Tracy edwards won international fame in 1989 as the skipper of the first all female crew to sail around the world in the whitbread round the world yacht race. Tracy is an accomplished motivational. Led by tracy edwards on the maiden, they won two of the six legs of the 1990 whitbread round the world race and finished second overall in their class.

‘maiden rising’ (to be published next year) tells tracy’s story from the birth of her daughter through the adventures of maiden ii, the horrors of qatar, working for ceop, graduating from university at the. Maiden is the inspiring story of how in 1990, tracy edwards, a modest 27 year old, took a yacht and the first all-female crew ever to circumnavigate the globe through storms and savage seas. Tracy's tumultuous childhood has given her a unique way to contribute to the organisations she helps and she is passionately committed to giving youngsters a second chance.