Taking the Helm: America's Top Woman Sailor Tells Her Story

By Dawn Riley and Cynthia Flanagan

America's top woman sailor tells how she brought the U. S. Women's Challenge to an against-all-odds finish in the harrowing Round-the-World Whitbread Race in spite of dissent, disagreements, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316745502
• ISBN13: 9780316745505
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

All American Lady

This book was sitting on the coffee table of a friend. While waiting, I indulged and snagged it for several hours of incredible adventure. Perhaps it was the intrique of Nancy Frank launching from my home town and Dawn saving the day & night for the red bucket syndicate. Dawn Riley and Lyn Brooks are my female heros. Who knows about the milestone Lyn has set in the Hawaiian Ironman?Charlie Hunter...

wonderful, closet thing to being ina whitbread

I've been a Fan of Dawn and the Whitbread race for as long as I've been racing. This is a wonderful way of getting a birds eye view into the Whitbread and competitive racing.