Melodie Schaffer returned to update the Shellback Club on her recent trans-Atlantic race: the Transat Jacques Vabre 2021. She provided an excellent slideshow of her boat (now named Whiskey Jack, and sponsored by Stormtech) and the life aboard during the race. Melodie is now in the middle of another ocean race, this time a circumnavigation: the Globe 40 Race. Details on Melodie and the Globe 40 race are here: https://www.globwww.globe40.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/LEG-1-WJ-FS.jpg. About Melodie Schaffer
Melodie has sailed and raced out of RCYC on variety of boats from dinghies (Laser, 470, I14) to keel boats (Shark, C+Cs, 8 Meter, J105). She currently owns a Dufour 34 at the RCYC. Four years ago, she began offshore racing. She sailed in the 2019-2020 Clipper Round the World Race in the Southern Ocean leg and the Asian leg. She was then to race across the Pacific in March 2020, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A year ago, she bought a Class 40, a doublehanded offshore race boat. She trained for a couple weeks and then sailed the boat to France to compete in the Trans Jacques Vabre, a race from Le Havre, France to Martinique. This race draws the top sailors in the world. Competitors sail Ocean 50s, Class 40s, Ultims (100 foot triamarans) and Imoca 60s; all are racing doublehanded. She competed with a fellow Canadian and they are the first Canadians to finish the race. She was one of 14 women in the race, out of the 180 skippers. Melodie is currently in Auckland having just completed leg 3 of the Globe 40 Round the World race. She is a biomedical engineer by profession, and more recently a sailing photographer. She has three children, one in high school and two in university.
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