Socrates, Jeanne

Jeanne Socrates, on Saturday September 7th 2019, completed her second epic record-setting circumnavigation at Victoria.

She is shown in this Adrian Lam (Times-Colonist) image before her departure in 2018.

She is now the oldest person to sail solo nonstop unassisted around the world via the Five Great Capes of the Southern Ocean and the first woman to sail solo nonstop unassisted (twice) around the world from North America. Congratulations to her - challenge sailing in the tradition of Captain John Voss and the dugout canoe Tilikum. Jeanne Socrates joins Captain Voss as one of the greatest small craft sailors of all time.

Jeanne Socrates has been awarded the CCA Blue Water Medal (2014), the RCC Seamanship Medal (2014), the CA Duchess of York Trophy (2012 and 2020), the OCC Barton Cup (2014) and the CCA Special Award (2019). Jeanne Socrates states (Email 27/07/2021) that "I hold the record as the first woman to circumnavigate the world single-handed, nonstop unassisted from N. America - twice now! My 2018-2019 nonstop unassisted circumnavigation was South of all Five Great Capes - still the oldest person to do so!"