NEW WORLD RECORD

The fastest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica, the first woman and third person all for the message of Climate Action Now.

After suffering a dramatic dismasting in her 2017 record attempt, Lisa finally claimed the record for sailing solo around Antarctica shaving almost 10 days off the previous record time set by Russian Sailor Fedor Konyukhov.

Lisa sailed from Albany on February 21st 2022 and returned after spending three months in the Southern Ocean battling snow storms, cyclonic winds and waves the size of a 5-story building on a weekly scale.

Lisa completed the record sailing into Albany Harbour on the 25th of May 2022, establishing a new record time of 92 days, 18 hours, 21 minutes and 22 seconds.

Extreme sailing for science

A passionate environmentalist Lisa utilises all her sailing to promote sustainability and encourage people to take Climate Action Now. Working in partnership with several scientific organisations around the world Lisa was able to complete the following citizen science work.

  • Ran a micro lab 24/7 measuring Ocean Health taking data sets like acidity, salinity, PCo2,

  • 180 microplastic samples collected

  • Deployed 8 weather drifting buoys

  • Deployed an Argo Research Float

  • Mobile Weather station for the Bureau of Meteorology

  • Contributed sea floor depth data to the Seabed 2030 Program

  • Contributed to the UN Decade of Ocean Science through the Ocean Ops Odyssey Program.

 

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