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Cavalier 37 yacht BLACKMORES FIRST LADY
1988
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
This Cavalier 37 yacht BLACKMORES FIRST LADY was sailed by Australian yachtswoman Kay Cottee over a period of 189 days from 29 November 1987 to 5 June 1988 on her successful ocean voyage as the first woman to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. The yacht includes all fixed and essential equipment for the external and internal fitout, rigging and sail wardrobe in the configuration in which it arrived after the completion of the voyage in 1988.
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- Title: Cavalier 37 yacht BLACKMORES FIRST LADY
- Date: 1988
- Location: Sydney
- Type: Yacht
- Significance: BLACKMORES FIRST LADY was the yacht sailed by Kay Cottee when she became the first woman to sail alone around the world non-stop, in a voyage that took in both hemispheres to qualify as an official circumnavigation. The yacht illustrates the technical and personal preparations Cottee made to take herself and the yacht around the world. As her refuge, home and saviour, the yacht captures Kay Cottee's daily life experienced alone at sea, including the mundane and extraordinary.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Fibreglass, metal
- Credit line: ANMM Collection
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