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Katherine Chabaud is in the running for the Queen of the Transatlantic alongside 137 skippers in the Route du Rhum race. The open sea, she knows. The Frenchwoman is the first woman to have completed a Vendée Globe.
The red cigar is a mythical boat built in the early 90s. A woman then took the helm for her world tour. It’s Catherine Chabaudsailor and Member of the European Parliament. “What’s crazy is to have decided but I don’t regret“, she admits. After 140 days at sea, she will be the first woman to complete the Vendée Globe in 1996. 25 years later, here it is ready to start again on the red cigar.
At 59, she returned to solo racing. “What I was missing, I think, is my intimacy with the sea“, confides the navigator. For this, Katherine Chabaud has from resume the good old browsing habits she had lost with the years. Since 2019, she has also been a Member of the European Parliament. In Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)she can champion the cause of the oceans. In three years, she managed to advance important issues such as transport by sail. She is the only woman entered in the Rum class.