SAIL magazine and Hanse Yachts are excited to present a conversation with Cole Brauer and Lin Pardey during the Annapolis Sailboat Show in October. Encompassing 50 years of sailing, the racing rockstar and cruising legend will explore common threads in their unique careers—the spirit of passagemaking, the impact of self-reliance, and the power of storytelling.

SAIL Editor-in-Chief Wendy Mitman Clarke and Managing Editor Lydia Mullan will moderate the conversation and the Q&A to follow. The event, at the Jack C. Taylor Conference Center at the U.S. Naval Academy, will be Friday, October 11, at 4 p.m. Tickets are on sale now; purchase and get more details on the venue and event here.

“I am just over the moon that both of these sailors are going to be on the same stage to talk about their careers, experiences, and lives that encompass such diverse parts of the sailing world and community,” Clarke says. “We always strive to celebrate all the aspects of the sport and the life in the pages of SAIL, and I can’t think of two better sailors to help us do this. Equally compelling is how they are of such different generations, encompassing a period of so much change in terms of sailing, women in the sport, and the ways we communicate our stories of sailing.”

Cole Brauer is the first American woman to race a sailboat solo and nonstop around the Globe. As the youngest and only female sailor in the 2023-24 Global Solo Challenge, she raced a Class40 called First Light and finished second in March 2024. Along the way, she amassed half a million followers on Instagram, delighting her audience with cheerful updates from some of the most remote and treacherous waters on the planet. Her story has been featured in SAIL, The New York Times, People Magazine, TODAY, NBC, CNN, PBS, and others.

Lin Pardey literally wrote the book—many books—on cruising, inspiring generations of sailors to embrace the ethos of go small, go simple, go now. Over 50 years, she and her late husband, Larry, built two boats—the 24-foot Seraffyn and the 29-foot Taleisin—and sailed both engine-free cutters more than 200,000 nautical miles around the world, including voyaging against the wind around the Great Capes. Lin chronicled their travels in nearly a dozen books that have become cruising bibles, including The Cost Conscious Cruiser, The Self Sufficient Sailor, and Storm Tactics Handbook. After Larry’s passing in 2020, Lin has continued to sail and document her experiences with her current partner, David Haigh, as well as mentor younger cruisers and sailing writers and influencers. Her latest book, Passages: Cape Horn and Beyond, will be published in October. SAIL will have an exclusive chapter excerpt in our October issue, as well as a review.

Tickets to this event include a VIP option in which you can meet both sailors in person, get a photo, and have them sign issues of SAIL magazine featuring them. Purchase tickets and get more details on the venue and event here.

July 2024