A 29-year-old woman from Maine became the first American woman to sail around the world after arriving in A Coruña, Spain, on Thursday, March 7. Cole Brauer and her 40-meter sailboat, "First Light," ...

LONDON — A quadriplegic sailor set off on a journey around the British Isles Monday in a boat she controls with her breath. Hilary Lister, 36, set sail alone in her boat from Dover on the southeast ...

It took Cole Brauer a bit more than 80 days to work her way around the world, but the New York native has done it. On Thursday, the 29-year-old sailor become the first American woman to circumnavigate ...

Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink told AFP she encountered "very little" sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest ...

Brauer is the only woman among 15 solo racers in the Global Solo Challenge. Among the racers, 9 have dropped out. A woman from Maine is sailing into the record books as the first American woman to ...

March 8 (Reuters) - Sailor Cole Brauer has become the first American woman to race solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world, completing a journey spanning 30,000 miles after 130 days at sea.

BOSTON - Cole Brauer, a 29-year-old sailor from Boothbay, Maine, is now the first American woman to race solo around the world. Brauer finished second in the Global Solo Challenge, one of the most ...