Tracy Edwards and documentary director Alex Holmes share stories from 'Maiden' at the Envelope Live Screening Series in Hollywood.
Tracy Edwards was in her 20s, didn’t go to college, had no financial backing or reputation to draw supporters, and says she wasn’t the greatest sailor. So, of course she decided to lead the first-ever all-female crew in the dangerous Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989 — and serve as navigator as well.
Trailer for Alex Holmes’ documentary, “Maiden,” about the first all-female crew to compete in the Whitbread Round the World Race, skippered by Tracy Edwards.“I thought, ‘That’s a bit bloody profound for just two days out into the Atlantic, good grief.’ Then I thought, ‘Why don’t I know how to do one of the most essential jobs on a boat when I’m taking my life in my hands and sailing across the Atlantic?’ So I learned how to navigate in two days.
Apart from her desire to serve as navigator in the ballyhooed race, she said, “The second reason that I would never give up was I thought, ‘If we give up, the next all-female crew that comes after us, they’re not just going to have to fight against all the things we’ve had to fight against; they’re going to have to fight against our failure.’ And I couldn’t let that happen.
“There was another reason as well: I was really shocked that evening because it really brought home to me that all of these barriers that Tracy had dismantled all these years ago had slowly, over time, been re-erected and put back in place. Probably pretty quickly after Tracy had gone through them, I imagine. And they would be faced by my daughter in whatever she would want to do ...
“The Whitbread race committee asked people to take cameras on the boat,” said Edwards. “ ‘Cameras on the boat, quite revolutionary!’ All the men’s boats went, ‘We’re far too serious, ocean-racing sailors to be filming ourselves while we’re racing around the world.’ And we went, ‘We’ll film! We’ll film! We will!’
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