“She Sails On After Knockdown”
1 June, 2011
Cruising World (USA) Update on Jeanne finally able to sail away from Ushuaia after the major repairs needed following her 5th January knockdown in the Southern Ocean, well to the west of Cape Horn.
"The Socratic Method"
1 June, 2011
Leadership (S. Africa) "Not much can deter this globe-trekking granny." Award-winning quarterly magazine celebrates Women's Month (August) in S. Africa. An interview with Jeanne in Cape Town reflects on her recent solo circumnavigation.
“Jeanne Socrates, Circumnavigator”
1 June, 2011
Latitude 38 (USA) Report from Cape Town soon after her landfall on May 11th, completing her solo circumnavigation. (June 2011 'Sightings')
“Around-the-World Sailing Grandma”
16 May, 2011
Sailing (USA) Review of Jeanne’s solo sailing up to her knockdown in January, as she spends two months in Ushuaia, attempting to repair the damage to Nereida before making for Cape Town to complete a solo circumnavigation.
Live telephone interview from UK with Jeanne in Cape Town
13 May, 2011
BBC Radio Solent (UK) Listen to a live telephone interview with Geoff Holt in the Southampton BBC studio, broadcast soon after Jeanne's landfall in Cape Town from the Falklands at the end of her successful circumnavigation. (Note: Fast-forward to her interview 18:15 min from start)
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“Jeanne’s a Record Breaker!
11 May, 2011
Practical Boat Owner (UK) PBO celebrates Jeanne's completion of her RTW solo sail as she crosses her outbound path on 6th May 2011 and heads for Cape Town - but not a nonstop circumnavigation, as initially reported...
“Jeanne becomes world’s oldest female solo circumnavigator"
8 May, 2011
Sail-World.com (UK) Celebrating Jeanne nearing Cape Town and crossing her previous path south to Cape Town in December 2009 from Lanzarote - completing a solo circumnavigation.
“Knocked down off Cape Horn”
25 January, 2011
Yachting World (UK) Report from Ushuaia on Jeanne's 5th January knockdown and its consequences. (Published in March issue of YW)
"Jeanne Socrates, British solo grandmother, sails for the Horn”
7 December, 2010
Sail-World.com (UK) Lee Mylchreest gives an update and some background on British solo sailor Jeanne Socrates who this week is over the equator and heading for Cape Horn.
"Shipwreck, Recovery, Inspiration"
29 November, 2010
Cruising World (USA) Profile of solo yachtswoman Jeanne and her sailing experiences.
“Socrates the solo sailor has thought of everything”
21 October, 2010
Times Colonist (CAN) Newspaper report from Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), just before the start of an official solo, nonstop, unassisted RTW attempt from Victoria harbour entrance.
'The H2O Show' - interview at the 2010 Southampton Boat Show
10 September, 2010
BBC Radio Solent (UK) - Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Shelley Jory-Leigh look ahead to the 2010 Southampton Boat Show..... Jeanne Socrates tells us the latest on her round the world adventure - about to start in October. (Fast forward to 43m45s)
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"A Grande Old Dame"
1 August, 2010
Sailing (S. Africa) Interview in late February at the Royal Cape Y.C., published in the S. African sailing magazine's August issue, giving an overview of Jeanne's sailing up to her arrival nonstop in Cape Town from the Canaries in December 2009.
“Socrates departs Nelson”
1 June, 2010
Boating New Zealand (NZ) .... report on Jeanne’s planned departure from New Zealand to head north to Hawai’i.
“Solo yachtswomen pass in rough seas.”
12 May, 2010
The Nelson Mail (NZ) Tracy Neal reports on Jeanne’s arrival in Nelson nonstop from Cape Town and a shared storm south of Australia, NW of Tasmania, while heading east towards the Bass Strait and the Tasman Sea, on passage to New Zealand.
"Shipwrecked 60 Miles Short of Triumph"
1 July, 2009
Yachting Monthly (UK) Jeanne's own full story, about the painful loss (in 2008) of her first yacht Nereida just north of Acapulco in Mexico, finally appears in the August 2009 issue of the popular British sailing magazine. (Please visit http://www.ybw.com and check out their online content as well!)
“Spirit of Adventure”
12 June, 2009
Southampton Daily Echo (UK) Newspaper interview on board the new "Nereida" at Hamble Point Marina, near Southampton about Jeanne’s preparations for her proposed nonstop circumnavigation.
"Supergran Jeanne to sail round the world"
12 June, 2009
Southampton Daily Echo (UK) Video interview at Hamble Point Marina as Jeanne prepares the new Nereida to sail south.
Donwload/View or Listen Duration: 1 min 26 sec
“Nereida lost on Mexican beach“
1 August, 2008
Latitude 38 (USA) Report, first in print, after July interview by LaDonna Buback in San Francisco. Full story of Nereida's loss on a desolate Pacific beach, north of Acapulco in Mexico half a day short of completing her circumnavigation.
"Cruise Notes from Nereida in Cape Town"
15 March, 2008
Latitude 38 (USA) "Today I was planning on moving on from Cape Town, South Africa," reports singlehander Jeanne Socrates of the Najad 361 Nereida, as she gets ready to move north from Cape Town to Namibia and on across the South Atlantic to St Helena.