What our Patron is up to now
Yachting Australia Female Sailor of the Year
"Adrienne Cahalan (NSW) was named Female Sailor of the Year, with her most outstanding performance being navigator/weather router on board the catamaran, Cheyenne, which broke the Around the World Non Stop record.
She is the first and only woman to be part of a round the world record holding team. Cahalan achieved podium finishes in a number of events and was a finalist for Rolex World Yachtswoman of the Year for a fourth time. She is a Yachting Australia Board Member and patron of Marist Sisters College sailing program and Lane Cove 12ft Skiff Club."
For further information go to  www.yachting.org.au.
Adrienne started her sailing at Lane Cove in Lasers and has never looked back. We are proud to have her as our patron (even though her sailing pursuits mean that she is not often at the club) and proud to have nominated her for Australian Sailor of the Year. This is the second time she has won the Australian award and we are not going to give up on our nomination of her for Rolex World Yachtswoman of the Year.
As we have already mentioned Adrienne has signed up for the 57,000 kilometre 8 month Volvo Ocean Race as navigator on Brasil 1 which stops over in Melbourne in January, when she will receive her award.
Congratulations Ado.
Around the world again
Club Patron, Adrienne Cahalan is set to race around the world again in the prestigious Volvo Ocean Race. Adrienne, the only woman in the team, will be navigating for Brasil 1. Read all about the event at
www.volvooceanrace.org and
www.brasil1.com.br
Congratulations to our club patron, Adrienne Cahalan, on being shortlisted for the
ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2004. Click here to read the official press release.
New Round the World Sailing Record
From a start in Lasers at Lane Cove in her early teens, our club patron and
Australian Female Sailor of the Year (the correct name of the award), Adrienne
Cahalan, playing the pivotal role of Navigator, has been part of the team, at 43
minutes past midnight on 6 April (local time), to break the Round the
World Sailing Record aboard the 125' maxi-catamaran Cheyenne.
From the Steve Fossett web site:
Monday 5 April 2004, 14h43 GMT Isle d'Ouessant, France: 58 days 9 hours
32 mins 45 secs after taking the start on February 7th, American skipper Steve
Fossett and his international crew of 12 aboard the 125' maxi-catamaran
Cheyenne crossed the official WSSRC start-finish line here at Le Stiff lighthouse
on the French island of Ouessant (Ushant). They have just demolished the 2
year old Round The World Sailing record - by almost 6 days (an improvement of
5d 23h 4m 39s). Their time topples the May, 2002 mark of Bruno Peyron and
Orange I - and fulfils Fossett's decade old ambition to achieve 'the most
important record in sailing'.
Glossing over her earlier years in Lasers and Twelves at Lane Cove, Adrienne’s
profile on the Steve Fossett web site reads:
"A 12 time Sydney-Hobart veteran as well as navigator on Steve Fossett's 2002
Fastnet Course world record on PlayStation (now Cheyenne), Adrienne was
navigator/co-skipper with current Cheyenne Watch Captain Brian Thompson on
Maiden II's trio of 2002 speed records - Antigua-Newport, Cross Channel and
24 Hour record passages. She was navigator on Kingfisher's 2001 win in the
EDS Atlantic Challenge, 2003 Admirals Cup winner for Australia as navigator on
Aftershock, and was named Australian Yachtswoman of the Year 2003.
Adrienne has been navigator on 2 RTW's: Royal & Sun Alliance's 1998 record
attempt when they were dismasted in the Southern Ocean and the 1993-4
Whitbread on Heineken.
She has recently completed her Master of Science in Applied Meteorology,
specializing in the weather of the Southern Ocean, and has 3 times been
nominated as World Yachtswoman of the Year."
Congratulations Adrienne!
[Steve Fossett Challenge website here: www.fossettchallenge.com.]
Cheyenne crew member Fraser Brown's onboard news (posted Tue 9 March 2004)
Fraser Brown, Kiwi 12 footer sailor, was another crew member on board Cheyenne on its record-breaking voyage. This email news from Fraser was forwarded to the club commodore by Jimmy Walsh on March 1. It's well worth a read!
Fraser Brown's news from Cheyenne
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