Isabelle Autissier
Isabelle Autissier (born October 18, 1956 in Paris ) is a French sailor and author . She is the first woman to single-handedly (alone) circumnavigated the world in a sailing regatta .
biography
Autissier began sailing at the age of six, encouraged by her father Jean. At the age of twelve she made the decision to sail around the world alone and began with the first planning and preparations. In 1978 she finished her education as an engineer for marine science and fisheries research. In 1986 she sailed one-handed across the Atlantic with the 30- foot (around 9 meters) long steel yacht Parole , which she had worked on building for three years . In 1991, she managed to circumnavigate the world with one hand in seventh place in the 3rd BOC Challenge regatta. After her boat sank during the second participation in 1995, this also happened in 1999 for the third participation in the regatta Around Alone, which has since been renamed . The overturned boat PRB , however, drifted up keel, which meant that Autissier could be saved. Already knowing that she wanted to do something new, she declared that she did not want to take part in any further single-handed regattas.
Isabelle Autissier has been President of WWF France since 2009 .
In 2015 she published the novel Soudain, seuls ( Eng . Heart on Ice ), which tells of a couple of sailors who are stranded on a lonely island in South Georgia . The book was praised in Germany as a Pageturner (extremely exciting book) with depth and impressive landscape descriptions.
Sporting successes
- 1987: 3rd place in the Minitransat (route: Concarneau - Tenerife - Fort-de-France on Martinique )
- 1989: 12th place at the Solitaire du Figaro
- 1991: 7th place in the BOC Challenge (first one-hand circumnavigation of the world by a woman in a sailing regatta)
- 1994: Record on the route New York - San Francisco via Cape Horn in 62 days, 5 hours 55 minutes
- 1998: 2nd place at the Route de l'Or regatta
In 1996 Autissier was voted Yachtwoman of the year by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) .
Literary works
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Soudain, seuls. Roman, Stock, Paris 2015
- Übers. Kirsten Gleinig: Heart on ice. Mareverlag , Hamburg 2017. Nominated for the trilingual Euregio Student Literature Prize 2019, audio book speaker Yara Blümel Lübbe Audio & Audio-To-Go, 2018
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Oublier Klara. Roman, Stock, Paris 2019
- Übers. Kirsten Gleinig: Forgot Klara. Mareverlag , Hamburg 2020.
Web links
- sports.jrank.org: Biography (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the survival of a sailor in Die Presse on Sunday, June 25, 2017
- ↑ femundo: An excursion into perdition. November 10, 2018, accessed January 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Autissier, Isabelle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |