Wild Oats XI at 2018 Hamilton Island Race Week. “One of my big missions is to promote women in sailing because it’s always been a bit of a battle,” she says. Jackson was skipper on the all-female crew of Wild Oats in 2018, which came second overall at Race Week. “But I don’t understand why it’s not half and half.” “Offshore sailing doesn’t appeal to everyone, not because they’re not tough enough but because not everyone can commit to it,” she says. One reason Hamilton Island Race Week may attract more women sailors is because it’s day sailing versus offshore sailing, which is through the day and night, says sailor Stacey Jackson, who has been involved in the regatta since the early 2000s. “It’s probably grown in the past 10 or 12 years, in the top-class yachts as well as the family crew on the cruising-type yachts.” “There are a lot of women racing on boats now,” says Hamilton Island Race Week regatta director Denis Thompson. Women’s football might be having its moment right now but another sport has been making strides in recent years too.
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