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This is why
#Maiden
is a Global Ambassador for the empowerment of girls through
#education
💪
If you empower a girl, you can change the world and Maiden’s story inspires!
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MAIDEN:
🏆1ST ALL FEMALE CREW TO WIN A ROUND THE WORLD RACE
🏆1ST FEMALE BRITISH SKIPPER TO WIN A ROUND THE WORLD RACE
🏆1ST FULLY CREWED BRITISH BOAT TO WIN A ROUND THE WORLD RACE
🏆1ST BLACK WOMEN TO RACE AROUND THE WORLD
🏆1ST AFGHAN WOMAN TO RACE AROUND THE WORLD
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A huge congratulations to the incredible
@KirstenGGR
, who has just become the first woman to win a solo, round the world yacht race after winning the 2022 Golden Globe Race!
The
#Maiden
crew and
@TracyEdwardsMBE
have a message for Kirsten ⬇️
#KirstenNeusch
äfer
#GGR2022
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Rosa sat, so Ruby could walk, so Kamala could run.
If girls can see it, they can be it.
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Heather Thomas has just become the youngest female skipper to win a round the world race! 💪
#OGR2023
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On Monday 29th April 2024, the crew and shore team of Maiden were invited to Clarence House by HM Queen Camilla in honour of Maiden's historic achievement of becoming the first all-female crew to win an around the world race.
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Maiden has crossed the final
@oceangloberace
finish line, after 41d 18h 52m 58s at sea for leg four, sailing from Punta del Este, Uruguay, to Cowes, England.
Maiden crew - we are all so proud of you.
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On hearing the confirmation that Maiden had won the
@oceangloberace
, skipper Heather Thomas said “It’s amazing to be the first all-female crew to win an around the world race; it’s a historic moment. The crew & I worked really hard for it & we’re very proud of our achievement.”
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"Documentaries don’t get much more intense, or more moving, than this one" -
@latimes
The incredible true story of the women who dared to make waves:
#MaidenFilm
is coming to your TV screen at 9PM, Monday 11th November, on
@BBCFOUR
!
#Maiden
#Sailing
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The incredible, against-all-odds story of sailor
@TracyEdwardsMBE
, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. Book tickets for the 7th March now!
#MaidenFilm
#MaidenInspires
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“The Queen will host the ‘Maiden’ yachting crew at Clarence House to congratulate them on their unprecedented win of the Ocean Globe Race, becoming the first ever all-female crew to win an around-the-world yacht race…”
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This time 1 year ago,
#Maiden
was sailing on the first leg of the world, with our first skipper
@_NikkiHenderson
at the helm 💪
A year on, The Maiden Factor is so excited that Nikki is now supporting
@GretaThunberg
’s journey to the climate summit in Spain! Safe sailing crew 💪
I decided to help
@Sailing_LaVaga
and support Greta because she is changing the world - simply by standing up for what she believes is right and staying true to her values. I so admire that, and hope to draw strength from her.
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Our incredible Maiden crew, who have now set sail in Leg Four of the
@oceangloberace
with Skipper Heather Thomas ⛵️
#OGR2023
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#Maiden
looking lovely as ever in the rain leaving
@SotonBoatShow
! Thanks to everyone who came out sailing with us, and came to say hi at the show ⛵️
#MaidenInspires
@AIP_World
#AnythingIsPossible
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Seven years ago today, Maiden returned to Southampton, rescued by
@TracyEdwardsMBE
from abandonment and disrepair in Mahé, Seychelles.
#MaidenInspires
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There’s only 30 minutes to go until Maiden leaves the dock to head to the
@oceangloberace
leg three start line. They’ll be at sea for over a month, sailing from Auckland, New Zealand to Punta del Este, Uruguay!
#dpworld
#OGR2023
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#Maiden
is home! She will be staying at MDL’s Hamble Point Marina, who have been so welcoming on her arrival ⛵️
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The
#Maiden
crew wanted to share their support for
@vanessa_vash
as she fights and strikes for
#ClimateJustice
. An inspiring young individual who is working so hard to raise awareness of the destruction of the Congo’s
#Rainforest
- we stand with you, Vanessa 💪
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She's battled storms, broken ribs, had to retire from the
@VendeeGlobe
, but nothing stopped
@samanthadavies
from continuing her journey. Incredibly, she's now raised enough money to fund heart operations for 90 children! She has a message waiting from a big fan...
@ColinSalmon24
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Tune into BBC breakfast this morning around 8:35am to see Maiden Skipper Heather Thomas, Engineer Ami Hopkins and Onboard Media Najiba Noori chatting to Naga and Charlie in the studio!
#maideninspires
#bbcbreakfast
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A huge congratulations to
@MerronMiranda
from all of us at The Maiden Factor for your outstanding achievement in the
@VendeeGlobe
. You're an inspiration to us all & a role model for any young person who wants to go out there & achieve something!
@VendeeGlobeENG
@TracyEdwardsMBE
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"We had an amazing welcome & had many boats join us out in the Solent to help us cross the finish line. It was phenomenal to have all of those boats and people come and see us, thank you everyone! The first person we saw on a boat was Tracy, of course!" - Heather Thomas
#OGR2023
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Maiden is home! After 8 days at sea, the crew are back in the UK and reunited with
@TracyEdwardsMBE
!
#dpworldmaidentour
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Thora Lund Robinson challenged gender norms as the first woman to join the oldest regularly scheduled ocean race, the Bermuda Race, in 1906! She was only 20 years old & sailed on the smallest boat in Bermuda Race History, the 28-foot sloop Gauntlet.
#WomensHistoryMonth
#Sailing
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In March 2020, the world tour came to an abrupt halt due to the pandemic and we were not able to complete any of our planned fundraisers at stopovers since then. We need your help to
#KeepMaidenMoving
to resume our vital work, empowering & enabling girls into
#education
.
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The
#Maiden
crew are so happy to be speaking at Long Beach Yacht Club tonight - a big thankyou to all the members that came down! ⛵️
#sailing
#californiasailing
#longbeach
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After 48 hours of full on
#sailing
in all conditions, including squalls, rain, a very small moment of flat water and no wind, to slamming upwind for the last 6 hours,
#Maiden
's crew have surfed safety into Port Almerimar to wait until conditions improve!
#thursdaymorning
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Boats are already out on the water for Maiden’s last sail from Cowes to Southampton this morning!
#maideninspires
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@MerronMiranda
updates us from the ocean as she enters the final days of her
@VendeeGlobe
@VendeeGlobeENG
adventure!
Discover her favourite part of the race so far and much more in the full length video here:
⛵️
#VG2020
#Vend
éeGlobe
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Official Update: Maiden and her crew have just rounded Cape Horn in the
@oceangloberace
!
But Maiden isn’t just passing a landmark… some members of the crew are also making history ⬇️
#DPWorld
#OGR2023
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"If we are to successfully address the climate crisis, we need women in the rooms where decisions are being made that affect the climate (and almost all decisions now do)." -
@vanessa_vash
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"
#OTD
in 1990, Maiden crossed the finish line of the Whitbread & sailed into history books as the first all-female crew. Little did we know that 34 years later Maiden would make history again with the first all-female crew to WIN an around the world race!"
-
@TracyEdwardsMBE
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MAIDEN has been named as
#18
in
@RottenTomatoes
Top 100 documentaries!
“Enthralling viewing even for audiences with little to no knowledge of or interest in sailing,
#Maiden
pays powerful tribute to a true pioneer.”
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The ever-growing rainbow spiral of children's handprints that
#Maiden
is collecting as she travels around the world, symbolising their belief in
#education
and
#equality
for all 🖐
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Women sailors are breaking barriers in a traditionally male-dominated sport. They are changing the game!
#WomenInSailing
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It’s 31 years today since Maiden became the first all-female crew to sail around the world (with
@TracyEdwardsMBE
as Skipper) when she crossed the finish line of the Whitbread Round the World Race!
#sailing
#FridayFeeling
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Maiden has crossed the
@oceangloberace
Leg Three finish line in Punta del Este, Uruguay, at 12:01am local time! 💪
#dpworld
#OGR2023
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Maiden has set sail to Santos, Brazil! 🇧🇷
Waving goodbye to
#CapeTown
after many months, the
#Maiden
crew will now be at sea for over 3 weeks, with 3400nm ahead of them ⛵️
#dpworldmaidentour
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16 Sept 2023, 2:28 pm
Team 03:
#maidenfactor
(UK) - 58FT BRUCE FARR DESIGN - Flyer
The currency on Maiden has now become snacks. With apple sauce being traded for noodles and oreos for pretzels...
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Happy Friday from Maiden and her crew, who are nearing the end of Leg Four of the
@oceangloberace
! ☀️
#dpworld
#FridayFeeling
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The Maiden crew are almost ready to set sail once more ⛵️ Erica Lush will be skippering
#Maiden
from Saint John to Sag Harbor, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard before sailing into her home port in Newport!
#dpworldmaidentour
@DP_World
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Big shoutout to Sally Hunter! As part of the original Maiden crew, her insights gave us a behind-the-scenes look at the race's challenges, making each update a real adventure and bringing the thrill of the sea to our screens. Thankyou Sal!
#OGR2023
#maideninspires
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A massive well done to Kirsten Neuschäfer from everyone at The Maiden Factor, for winning the Sportswoman of the Year Award at last night’s 17th Annual SA Sport Awards! 🥳💪
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"People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could."
- Gertrude Erderle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel, beating the men's record by two hours!
#AmazingWomen
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We are thrilled to announce
@WhoopiGoldberg
as our inaugural Maiden Voice!
#MaidenVoices
Read the full story on our website:
Photo Credit: Marion Curtis | StarPix for Sony Picture Classics | ShutterStock
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Diana Trujillo moved to the US at age 17 with only $300. Nearly 25 years later, she leads the engineering team responsible for the robotic arm of the
#Perseverance
rover, as well as hosting the first-ever Spanish-language
#NASA
transmission of a planetary landing!
#WomenInSTEM
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Tracy Edwards MBE and
@DP_World
are delighted to announce that
#Maiden
& her all-female crew will enter the 2023
@oceangloberace
! Part of the strong ‘flyer class’, Maiden will be up against other historic Whitbread boats from the 70s onwards.
Read more:
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A huge congratulations to
#Maiden
crew member Heather, who has just passed her Yacht Master Ocean Exam! 🥳
#Sailing
#WomenInSTEM
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We are excited to officially announce that Heather Thomas, 26 from the UK, will be Maiden’s Skipper for the Ocean Globe Race!
#dpworld
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⛵️
@samanthadavies
' past Jules Verne crewmates have gathered together to celebrate the end of her incredible (and gruelling) adventure!
Watch the full length video here: 👈
@initiativecoeur
@VendeeGlobeENG
@VendeeGlobe
#VendeeGlobe2020
#samdavies
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➡️
@TracyEdwardsMBE
's letter to her younger self closes our
#IWD2024
series today! Tracy's journey from difficult teenage years to changing the face of sailing for women is a powerful tribute to overcoming adversity💪
#InternationalWomensDay
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MAIDEN: A YEAR IN NUMBERS
#Maiden
has been
#sailing
the world for one year with an all-female crew, inspiring the world yet again, raising funds and awareness for girls'
#empowerment
and education 💪
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After 101 days at sea and 27,656 miles sailed,
@MerronMiranda
has travelled up the
@lessables
channel and is about to step onto dry land for the first time in a long time! A fantastic achievement in 22nd place & as the 9th woman to complete a
@VendeeGlobe
💪
#VendeeGlobe2020
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If you’re not already watching, tune into
@BBCBreakfast
this morning to catch
#Maiden
,
@TracyEdwardsMBE
and the new skippers on board! You can also catch up on
@BBCiPlayer
after the show.
#AnythingIsPossible
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Maiden has arrived in Annapolis!
#Maiden
will be at City Dock from 17-23 May 2022. Maiden will leave
#Annapolis
at 0900hrs on 26 May for a short stop in Nauticus,
#Norfolk
VA ⛵️
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How cool is this? An all-female team consisting of a pharmacist, a medical doctor, and two nurses traveled in one day by plane, sled and snowmobile to deliver COVID-19 vaccines in the harshest of conditions in rural Alaska. Awesome women!
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“In September 1989,
#Maiden
crossed the start line of the WRTWR! 33 years later, 89 women have now sailed on Maiden all contributing to our mission to raise awareness and funds for girls’
#education
. Thank you to every single one!” -
@TracyEdwardsMBE
#dpworldmaidentour
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Announcing The Maiden Factor Voices!
#MaidenVoices
will be a group of influential & inspiring women (& men) coming together with the common goal of generating awareness of the importance of girls’ education & championing solutions to enable access to education 💪
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From everyone at The Maiden Factor: a huge congratulations to Pen Duick VI and all the crew for completing the
@oceangloberace
and being the first to cross the finish line. A wonderful achievement! 🌊
#OGR2023
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Maiden has left
#Charleston
and is headed for
#Annapolis
! We have our next skipper at the helm, and it's another familiar face... welcome back Liz Wardley!
#Maiden
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Just over an hour and a half to go until
#MaidenFilm
is on
@BBCFOUR
! ⛵️
It’s wonderful watching the film, whilst knowing that
#Maiden
is sailing on another adventure with her new all female crew, raising funds & awareness for girls’ empowerment & education 💪
#MaidenInspires
"Documentaries don’t get much more intense, or more moving, than this one" -
@latimes
The incredible true story of the women who dared to make waves:
#MaidenFilm
is coming to your TV screen at 9PM, Monday 11th November, on
@BBCFOUR
!
#Maiden
#Sailing
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A huge thank you to our partners for their invaluable support of Maiden and her crew’s participation in the
@oceangloberace
and Maiden’s World Tour –
@DP_World
,
@MorganLewisLaw
,
@viasat
(Inmarsat) and the
@GREATBritain
campaign. We couldn't have done it without you!
#OGRG2023
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"After her recent barrier-breaking around-the-world sailing odyssey, Vuyisile Jaca’s life will chart a slightly different course. Jaca was promised a full bursary to study nautical science by KwaZulu-Natal’s Sport MEC!"
Keep reading ⬇
#maideninspires
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Maiden has only got 700nm to go until she crosses the fourth and final
@oceangloberace
finish line!
📸©OGR2023/The Maiden Factor
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A huge congratulations to our Maiden crew member Vuyisile (Vuyi) Jaca for winning the 'Newcomer Making Waves' Award at the Imbokodo Women in Maritime, after being nominated by Sail Africa!
#amazingwomen
#maideninspires
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We are thrilled to have
@deecaffari
MBE aboard
#Maiden
! Dee will skipper Maiden for all sea trials before she leaves for the world tour and then she will rejoin her for additional legs on the tour ⛵️
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Maiden has officially crossed the
@oceangloberace
Leg Two finish line at 07:39am (local time) in Auckland after 38 days at sea! 💪
📸 The Maiden Factor/Junella King/ Ocean Globe Race Live Video
#OGR2023
#dpworld
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Weather checked, breakfast eaten and foul weather gear on...
#Maiden
is about to depart and continue her first leg of the world tour!
#MaidenSetsSail
⛵️
#AnythingIsPossible
@AIP_World
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A fantastic photo by Georgia Schofield of Maiden and her all female crew, finishing Leg Two of the
@oceangloberace
in Auckland, New Zealand! 🇳🇿
#dpworld
#OGR2023
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Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
@HiboWardere
has shared her story with us after being cut at just six years old⬇️
#EndFGM
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What a wonderful and richly deserved welcome back in South Africa for Vuyi! She was greeted by her friends, her brother, Sail Africa, and had a special visit from her high school maritime teacher and Mxolisi Kaunda, the mayor of eThekwini (Durban)! We miss you already Vuyi! 👋
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