Lisa Blair speaking at MYC

Lisa Blair will be speaking at the Mooloolaba Yacht Club on Tuesday, 12 February 2019.

Join Lisa Blair for an evening enjoying a positive, empowering story of all the highs and lows of sailing solo around Australia in 58 Days including Lisa’s almost sinking on her final run to the finish line.
6pm for 6.30 start- $20 at the door. Please RSVP by email to mooloolabayachtclub@bigpond.com or 0413 227 013

In 2017 Lisa Blair became the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica with one stop. She suffered incredible storm conditions and a dramatic de-masting but not even a month after completing and surviving this she was already preparing her next adventure. Lisa aimed to become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Australia. Lisa has always seen a circumnavigation of Australia to be a much harder journey than Antarctica and a greater risk of failure. Lisa explains: “Sailing around Antarctica was mostly open water and once you could handle the storms it was just a process of ticking off the miles whereas with the Australia circumnavigation I am close to land almost the whole of the circumnavigation bringing with it challenges like increased traffic, reefs, rocks, changing weather influenced by land and extreme sleep deprivation, one mistake and I am on a reef or washed up on a beach and its game over”.