Jeanne Socrates


Jeanne Socrates is a British yachtswoman. She is from Lymington. She holds the record as the oldest female to have circumnavigated the world single-handed, and she is the only woman to have circumnavigated solo nonstop from N. America. She was awarded the Cruising Club of America's Blue Water Medal and the Royal Cruising Club Medal for Seamanship in 2013.
On 28 September 2017, after major injuries due to a fall from a ladder while working on her yacht Nereida, a 38-foot Najad 380, she postponed a planned attempt to gain the record as the oldest circumnavigator of either sex, then held by Japanese Minoru Saitō who sailed round the world in 2005 at age 71.
On 3 October 2018, Socrates started on her latest attempt to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
On Saturday 7 September 2019, Socrates successfully completed her attempt to become the oldest person ever to solo circumnavigate non-stop.