All-female sailing crew provide inspiration on International Women's Day

International Women’s Day is a global call for female equality and empowerment, and the day celebrated on March 8 every year is particularly pertinent to Team SCA.

The all-female professional sailing team has demonstrated great resilience and courage in so far completing more than half of the Volvo Ocean Race – arguably the most demanding sports event on the planet – with the hardest part of the race still ahead of them.

It is the first time in 12 years that women have competed in the punishing 38,739-nautical mile round-the-world yacht race - the ultimate test in human endurance. Swedish sponsor SCA, a leading global hygiene and forest products company, is supporting the team as part of its campaign for women to participate fully in all aspects of society, including those usually dominated by men.

Skippered by renowned British single-handed sailor Sam Davies, Team SCA is about to start Leg Five of the Volvo Ocean Race -from Auckland to Itajai, Brazil – which promises to be the most brutal yet. The crew will face facing fiercely strong winds, deep waves, freezing temperatures and hazardous icebergs.

The Volvo Ocean Race started in Alicante, Spain in October 2014 and will finish at the end of June 2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden.



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00:00:00- 00:00:30 - Interview with Australian sailor Sophie Ciszek
“I think it is really good to pick a day and focus on women – what they’re doing and what they’re achieving. Tou can get really caught up in what you’re doing and not look at the bigger picture, and forget how many people you’re inspiring and what yopu’re achieving yourself personally. Yeah, to have a day to celebrate it is amazing. And it makes me think about it – stop and have a think.”

00:00:31- 00:01:14 – Interview with American sailor Sara Hastreiter
I think personally, being an international day, I think about the discrepancies between the opportunities that women have in different places around the world, and I think about how lucky I am personally to be a part of this team where we celebrate women and their strengths every single day. When we go out to sea we are regularly getting updates from our media side, just sending us positive thoughts and words from around the world being inspired by us, and we are equally inspired to realize our message is bigger than just this race and what we are doing. We are doing it for our partnership with SCA but we are also doing it for the empowerment of women around the world.

00:00:01:15-00:01:50 - Interview with British sailor Dee Caffari
This is making sure you believe that you can go out there and do it, and it is something we ourselves as sailors have had to do – believe we can go out there and compete with the guys on the water and it’s now coming to fruition and therefor inspiring others to go “ah, we can do this too.” And it doesn’t have to be sailing around the world. It could be anything, but believing it’s there to be grabbed and that it doesn’t matter whether you are male or female and kind of eliminating this kind of gender inequality. And if International Women’s Day can raise awareness that this equality is not there then I think that is something we can then address and get better from that.

00:01:52-00:02:35  - Interview with Team SCA skipper Sam Davies in French
00:02:36-00:03:01 – Interview with Dutch sailor Carolijn Brouwer in Dutch
00:03:02-00:04:02 – Interview with Dutch sailor Carolijn Brouwer in Portuguese
00:04:03-00:05:14 – Interview with Dutch sailor Carolijn Brouwer in Spanish

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Team SCA in Cape Town
Aerial shots
Crew getting changed into wet weather gear
Heavy weather sailing
Grinding
Night shots
Big waves hitting the boat
General sailing shots
Crew sleeping/resting
Crew cooking using freeze-dried food
Serving up food
Navigation station shots
Washing hair on deck
Exercising
Timelapse below deck
Dolphins alongside the boat