Antarctica 2.0: fastest ever.
Five years after her dismasting, Lisa went back to the Southern Ocean and took almost 10 days off the record: the fastest person ever to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica.
The record
Unfinished business
After the dramatic dismasting of her 2017 attempt, Lisa returned to claim the record outright. She set out from Albany in February 2022 and spent three months in the Southern Ocean, battling snow storms, cyclonic winds and waves the size of a five-storey building, week after week.
She sailed back into Albany Harbour on 25 May 2022 with a new record time of 92 days, 18 hours, almost 10 days faster than Russian sailor Fedor Konyukhov: the fastest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica, the first woman to sail non-stop below 45° South, and only the third person ever to do it.
Extreme sailing for science
Ran a micro-lab 24/7 measuring ocean health: acidity, salinity, pCO₂ and more
Collected 178 microplastic samples, the largest microplastic survey of Antarctic waters
Deployed 8 weather drifting buoys and an Argo research float
Ran a mobile weather station for the Bureau of Meteorology
Contributed seafloor depth data to the Seabed 2030 program
Contributed to the UN Decade of Ocean Science through the OceanOPS Odyssey program
92 days in 89 blogs
Point Nemo, knockdowns, a wheel that fell off and a race to Cape Horn with Fedor's ghost on her tail.
Next: the Arctic
In June 2028 Lisa sets out to become the first person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the Arctic Circle.
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