Remember Donna Lange? On March 29, 2007 this Oregon-raised, US Virgin Islands-based sailor made nautical history with the completion of a solo circumnavigation, westabout with stops, via the great capes aboard her SC 28 Inspired Insanity. In seven months she intends to set off again, but this time she hopes to do a lap around the planet nonstop.
If successful, she will not be the first West Coast woman to do so. That honor went to Vancouver, BC-based singlehander Jeanne Socrates, who finished the trip last year aboard her Najad 380 Nereida. But Lange could be the first American woman to complete the circuit nonstop. Read More