Ann Davison Port Hadlock, WA by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding where students and volunteers did most of the planking restoration. The boat will be finished by volunteers and will be sailed around the Puget Sound area next year before being used for sailing instruction. Davison was the author of several other autobiographical works. Her first two books were written to pay off debts incurred with her husband in re-furbishing a 70-foot ketch, ""Reliance"". which they bought at the end of the Second World War with the aim of crossing the Atlantic and a new life. In her first book, "Last
Naomi James her husband fell overboard and drowned off Salcombe, Devon. Her daughter was born 10 days later. Dame Naomi was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. She received her Ph.D in Philosophy from University College Cork in 2006. Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz of Poland was the first woman to sail around the world solo, completing her 401-day voyage (via the Panama Canal) on 21 April 1978, less than two months before James, starting and finishing in the Canary Islands. James' voyage is notable as she was the first woman to single-handedly sail the clipper route, eastabout and south