Podcast Ep. 5 - Dee Caffari: 'The doors have been blown open' for women's offshore sailing

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Last week, The Famous Project crew made history – and Dee Caffari sees it as just the beginning. Freddie Carr sits down with Dee to unpack how eight women became the first all-female crew to complete a non-stop circumnavigation of the globe on a multihull – a 57-day voyage that rewrote the record books despite everything the ocean threw at them.

In this interview, Caffari reveals the stat that stopped her in her tracks: before this voyage, only three women had ever rounded Cape Horn on a multihull. The Famous Project made that number eleven. She explains why the team's legacy matters more than the time on the clock, how co-skipper Alexia Barrier assembled an international crew of seven nationalities, and what it took to keep pushing through catastrophic gear failures that would have broken lesser teams.

Also in this episode: Andy Rice reports from New Zealand ahead of Auckland SailGP, with updates on the Black Foils' recovery from Perth, the coaching musical chairs at the Kiwi SailGP team, Iain Jensen joining Emirates Team New Zealand, and the latest on whether Season 6 will feature split fleets or 13 boats on one chaotic start line.

00:02:00 - Quentin Dubois smashes Mini Transat record
00:03:40 - SailGP New Zealand team update
00:08:10 - Iain Jensen joins Emirates Team New Zealand
00:15:14 - Dee Caffari on The Famous Project
00:30:15 - Battling mainsail lock failure in Southern Ocean
00:39:30 - Surviving Storm Ingrid in the Bay of Biscay
00:46:15 - Future plans for the all-female crew
00:51:25 - SailGP Auckland weather forecast