The SisterShip Journals

An interview with Sophie Darsy by Erin Carey

I’m captivated by stories of women crossing oceans, especially those who undertook voyages decades before all the wonderful technology we have at our fingertips today. How many of us would head off without that technology I wonder? Even with all our modern gadgets, crossing an ocean solo is a daunting thought. The following are some of the books on my shelf written by trail blazing, solo sailing women from the 1970s and onwards...

Valerie Poore writes SisterShip Magazine's 'Flat-bottomed girl: views from the canal' column

Amy Alton interviews Dani from the YouTube channel 'Living on a Lifeboat'

A new life for an old Army T-boat

Amy Alton interviews Holly from the YouTube channel 'Sailing the Space Between' (reprinted from SisterShip Magazine January 2021)

On Monday 21nd February, a brightly colored racing yacht punched into a steep chop and 25-knot headwinds as it headed out of Albany harbor, Western Australia, towards an invisible start line off Breaksea Island.

As record-breaking solo sailor Lisa Blair prepares to embark on her latest adventure, a tilt at the speed record for circumnavigating Antarctica solo, d'Albora has jumped aboard with financial support for her campaign.

After moving to the Central Queensland coast many decades ago learning to sail seemed a good idea, so my husband-to-be and I bought a small neglected Hartley TS16 (trailer sailer).