Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz
Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (born July 16, 1936 in Warsaw ) is a Polish sailor .
Life
Krystyna Chojnowska completed a degree in shipbuilding at the Technical University of Gdansk and worked as a shipbuilding engineer at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk . She started sailing at the age of 16. In 1960 she became a helmsman and in 1966 she became a yacht captain for ocean shipping . As captain, she led 21 ocean voyages, including three with an all-female crew.
She became known as the first woman to circumnavigate the world as a solo sailor. The voyage with the yacht Mazurek began on March 28, 1976 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria . Via Bridgetown ( Barbados ), Balboa , Taiohae , Tahiti , she sailed to Sydney , where the yacht had to be repaired. After continuing the journey via Darwin, she became seriously ill and was taken to Cairns by plane from Portland Roads . However, she continued the voyage and reached the Mozambique Strait on December 2, 1977 and finally, after 31,166 nautical miles and 401 days, back to Las Palmas on April 21, 1978. It was entered in the Guinness Book of Records .
literature
- Polish explorers , publisher: Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ISBN 83-89175-51-7 , page 55 ff.
- Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Krystyna , in: Jenny Uglow , Maggy Hendry: Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography . London: Macmillan, 1999 (3rd edition), ISBN 0333725735 , p. 124
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Krystyna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chojnowska, Krystyna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |