the whitbread was the race. i made the decision to put an all—female crew into the race.orm of sexism. in 1989 tracy edwards and her all—female crew were openly mocked as girls doing a man's job when they took part in the whitbread round the world challenge. maiden, the film named after their racing boat, is the story of that voyage. painstakingly pieced together from archive footage, but it traces the personaljourney of the boat's skipper, a young woman working on yachts who yearned to race. why did you decide to put together an all—female crew? for any woman going on a boat she could never be good enough unless we could prove that a project put together by women, for women, to sail around the world with an all—female crew would be the only way to prove once and for all. the triumph of maiden as a sporting first might have gone undocumented, were it not for tracy edwards giving a talk in london, which director alex holmes attended with his daughter. the story she told seemed to me, listening to it in the presence of my 11—year—old daughter, to be as relevant today as it

and ridicule as they attempted to become the first all—female sailing crew to participate in the whitbready southwest, the documentary maiden brought audiences a portrait of british sailor tracey edwards and her all—female crew. emma jones reports. that i made the decision to put an all—female crew into the race. we were absolutely determined. setting sail into a storm of sexism. in 1989 tracey edwards and her all—female crew were openly mocked as girls doing a man'sjob, when they took part in the whitbread round the world challenge. maiden, the film is named after their racing boat, is a story of that voyage. painstakingly pieced together from archive footage but most of all, it traces the personaljourney of the boat's skipper. a young woman working on yachts ywho earned to race. why did you decide to put together an all—female crew? for any woman going onto a boat, she would never be good enough unless we could prove that a project put together by women, for women, to sail around the world with an all—female crew, would be the only way to prove once and for all. the triumph of maiden as

. —— whitbread. maiden, the film named after their racing boat, is that story.otage, but it relates the story of the boat's skipper, a young woman it relates the story of the boat's skippei’. a young woman working it relates the story of the boat's skipper, a young woman working on yachts who learned —— yarns to race. why did you decide to put together a all—female crew? why did you decide to put together a all-female crew? any woman on a boat could never be proven —— never be good enough if we could prove that an all—female crew would be the only way to prove once and for all. the triumph of maiden as a sporting first might have gone undocumented, not the tracy edwards giving a talk in london which director alex holmes attended with his daughter. the story she told seemed to me, listening in the presence of my 11—year—old daughter, to be as releva nt 11—year—old daughter, to be as relevant today as it was in 1989. i have never felt that i had to encourage my son to be more ambitious, but i still felt like i had to encourage my daughter to do that. and that was