Discussing recovery from an earlier severe knockdown NW of Stewart Island, NZ
12 June, 2019
ABC South East Radio (AUS) ..... Interview from the S. Pacific with Stuart Stansfield in Adelaide, South Australia, on ABC Radio's 'After 10 Show'.
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"76-year-old British solo yachtie delayed in NZ"
31 May, 2019
Radio New Zealand (NZ) ..... A 76-year-old British woman attempting to become the oldest person to sail around the world solo, non-stop and unassisted has been delayed in New Zealand. Jeanne Socrates, who holds the record for the oldest woman to achieve that feat, has been struggling to get into Oamaru Harbour to carry out repairs. So she headed to Timaru instead. Ms Socrates spoke to our producer Lydia Batham via satellite phone last night, as she sailed to Timaru. Interview aired on RNZ's 'First Up'.
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"Solo sailor on track to break a world record"
21 May, 2019
ABC Radio Tasmania (AUS) ..... Despite a nasty knock-down off the south of New Zealand last week, Jeanne Socrates is still on track to be the oldest person to single-hand a yacht nonstop around the world. Live interview took place during 'On Your Afternoon' with Helen Shield
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Live radio interview with Tasmania while passing SE
5 May, 2019
ABC Radio Tasmania (AUS) ..... Helen Shield has the pleasure of speaking with Jeanne this afternoon on 'Your Afternoon', ABC Tasmania
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Live interview with S. Australia while passing south of Tasmania
2 May, 2019
ABC SE Radio (AUS) Interview with Stuart Stansfield was streamed from Adelaide, South Australia, as part of ABC Radio's Regional News programme
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Victoria’s record-breaking senior sailor hits rough waters
29 March, 2019
Victoria News (CAN) ..... The waters were a bit rough in the Indian Ocean on Thursday and over the past week, as she tried to avoid a typhoon..... She ended her 176th day of sailing with a hot cup of soup and some freeze-dried beef-and-pasta hotpot.
Live interview by Julian Clegg when just over halfway, crossing south of the Indian Ocean
20 March, 2019
BBC Radio Solent (UK) ..... Chat with Julian Clegg on BBC Radio Solent's Breakfast Show, from the middle of the ocean halfway between Cape Town and Perth. Telephone call was made possible as a result of having the Aurora wi-fi terminal on board, courtesy GMN, who loaned the unit and gave free airtime. Many thanks for their generosity since it gave access to the Iridium satellite network.
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"Sailing solo, senior hits 100 days at sea in world record attempt"
16 January, 2019
CTV News (CAN)Christina Stevens of CTV Vancouver Island reports on Jeanne's progress after rounding Cape Horn.
"Jeanne Socrates - Round The World Record-Setting Sail by VE0JS"
5 January, 2019
Freesound.org (USA) ..... Listen to Jeanne Socrates, a 76 year-old female sailor, speak on the shortwave radio to well-wishing ham radio operators as she navigates across the South Atlantic towards Africa on a solo sailing trip around the world without ever stopping on land. Recorded on January 5 2019 in Rhode Island (USA) at 11 PM on 7160 kHz by amateur radio station W1ZY.
(More of her actual radio contacts with several stations in both N. and S. America, are found at: https://freesound.org/people/W1ZY/sounds/456010/)
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"'Just hanging on': 76-year-old sailor hits milestone in race for round-the-world record"
31 December, 2018
CBC News (CAN) ..... Megan Thomas reports on Jeanne having rounded Cape Horn in her bid to be the oldest person to sail around the world alone, non-stop and unassisted.
Live 'ham' radio interview on 20m, just west of Ducie Island
22 November, 2018
Amateur Radio Newsline (USA) -Audio Clip from Jeanne VE0JS while underway in the S. Pacific, presented by Neil Rapp WB9VPG on Amateur Radio Newsline (Report 2143, broadcast on 23 November 2018)
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"Senior sailor leaves Victoria to sail around the world - again"
3 October, 2018
Victoria News (CAN) ..... Keili Bartlett reports on Jeanne Socrates’s eight-month mission to become the oldest person to sail around the world … officially underway, as she left the Victoria Inner Harbour on Oct. 3, 2018. The 76-year-old became the oldest woman to sail — solo — around the world in an unassisted, non-stop voyage in 2013 when she was 70. That trip took her eight months to complete. Now she wants to do it in less.
"76-year-old woman to make fourth attempt to be oldest person to sail solo around the world"
28 September, 2018
Chek TV News (CAN) ..... WATCH: Jeanne Socrates already holds the record as being the oldest woman to sail solo, unassisted, non-stop around the world. But now, she's looking to be the oldest person, period. As Kori Sidaway tells us, in the past few years she's seen her fair share of setbacks, but she's been dogged in her determination to get back to the open ocean.
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"We're always learning, right? That's what I love about sailing"
24 February, 2018
Sedna Stories - Single Threads (USA) ..... While spending time in La Cruz getting ready for the Puddle Jump, Clif and I have been fortunate enough to have a wide range of cruisers in this community that have fueled our knowledge and boosted our preparedness. One of those such people has been Jeanne. Jeanne Socrates is well-known in the sailing world for her record of being the oldest woman to circumnavigate the world non-stop. This is a pretty remarkable feat, especially since she didn't even begin sailing until her early fifties. Interview by Giselle Miller
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"75-year-old woman attempts to be oldest person to sail around the world"
8 September, 2017
Chek TV News (CAN) ..... Interview by Ceilidh Millar, with video of Jeanne Socrates and Nereida, about her new attempt to become the oldest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the globe.
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"Jeanne Socrates to take on record-breaking sailing challenge in 2017"
3 January, 2017
The Log (USA) ..... Newspaper report by Nina Jussila from San Diego, California. World record holder for oldest female solo sailor plans to sail unassisted around the world again. Jeanne Socrates achieved the Guinness World Record as the oldest women to sail solo, non-stop and single-handed around the world in 2013. With 2017 on the horizon, the sailor has a new resolution: set another world record as the oldest person ever to sail alone and unassisted around the world. (Interview after being forced to abandon 2016 nonstop attempt due to damage)
"Sailor heads off from Victoria for record-setting circumnavigation"
20 October, 2016
CBC TV News (CAN) ..... Jeanne Socrates, 74, hopes to become the oldest person to sail solo non-stop around the world. The British sailor set sail from Victoria on Wednesday 19 October and expects to spend roughly the next eight months on the S/V Nereida. If she’s successful in the feat, she will edge out the record currently held by a 71-year-old man from Japan.
With additional video of Jeanne taken previously, showing details of her boat S/V Nereida.
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"Journey of a Lifetime: 74-year-old's sailing trip "
20 October, 2016
CTV Vancouver (CAN) ..... 74-year-old Jeanne Socrates is hoping to set a world record - as the oldest person to sail around the world solo.
Watch as Nereida is towed out from Victoria Harbour at the start of Jeanne's 2016 record attempt to become the oldest person to sail solo nonstop unassisted around the world via the Five Great Capes.
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"British sailor to attempt record-setting circumnavigation from Victoria"
25 July, 2016
CBC News (CAN) .....
Jeanne Socrates, 74, hopes to become the oldest person to sail solo non-stop around the world. The British sailor plans to set sail from Victoria in October and will spend roughly eight months on the S/V Nereida. If she’s successful in the feat, she will edge out the record currently held by a 71-year-old man from Japan. Report, with video, by Megan Thomas of CBC.
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"There Was No Question of Giving Up"
1 December, 2014
Yachting World (UK) ..... An overview of Jeanne's sailing and her three recent attempts to circumnavigate solo, nonstop, unassisted - finally succeeding in her last attempt, completed in Victoria, B.C. on 8th July 2013.