{"id":9502,"date":"2016-10-12T22:06:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T02:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2016-10-12T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T02:06:01","slug":"sailor-74-sets-sights-on-being-oldest-to-sail-solo-non-stop-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/sailor-74-sets-sights-on-being-oldest-to-sail-solo-non-stop-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor, 74, Sets Sights On Being Oldest To Sail Solo Non-Stop Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeanne Socrates has sailed enough ocean miles, 160,000, to circumnavigate the world seven times. Now she wants to establish a new record.\u00a0Socrates has already been recognized by Guinness World Records and nautical associations, like the Cruising Club of America, as the oldest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a non-stop, solo, unassisted sailing trip. She completed the trip in 2013, Victoria to Victoria in 258 days.<br \/>\nOn Oct. 17, the 74-year-old English woman will leave Ogden Point again to complete another circumnavigation. But this time she wants to become the oldest person to sail around the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.\u00a0The record is held by yachtsman Minoru Saito of Japan, who completed a successful sail around the globe in June, 2005 at the age of 71, according to his website.<br \/>\n\u201cIf I had waited just one year to do the last one I would have been the oldest person and not just the oldest woman,\u201d said Socrates in an interview at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club.<br \/>\nShe was not born on the water or raised as the offspring of a sailing family. She was a mathematics professor at a university in London, England, where she has three grandkids from a son and a daughter. \u201cAnd they don\u2019t really understand what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/news\/local\/sailor-74-sets-sights-on-being-oldest-to-sail-solo-non-stop-around-world-1.2363105\"> (Read more.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeanne Socrates has sailed enough ocean miles, 160,000, to circumnavigate the world seven times. Now she wants to establish a new record.\u00a0Socrates has already been recognized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8,614,9,10,609],"tags":[744,116,44,34,307,37,82,743],"class_list":["post-9502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-water-sailing","category-columns-blogs","category-cruising-news","category-current","category-current-issue","category-editors-picks","category-featured-news","tag-around-the-world-non-stop","tag-bluewater-cruising","tag-bluewater-sailing","tag-cruising","tag-liveaboard","tag-living-aboard","tag-offshore-sailing","tag-oldest-sailor-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}