Twenty-four hours into the CIC Normandy Channel Race and Irish Offshore sailor Pamela Lee co-skippering the Class 40 yacht '154' is lying 23rd in the fleet.
The 1000-miler that started on Sunday sees Lee embark on a new journey with French co-skipper Tiphanie Ragueneau.
As Afloat reported previously, less than three months after being selected for the "Cap sur Elles" initiative - which provides support for a pair of young female sailors to take part in the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre double-handed race to Martinique – Lee and her French counterpart Ragueneau are now racing in their first big racing challenge together.
The route of the 2023 CIC Normandy Channel Race
The pair's objective is the Transat Jacques Vabre starting in October, and so the Normandy Channel is both a qualifier and an opportunity for the female crew push themselves against an extremely high-level and experienced fleet.
The course is exciting, technical and complicated, sending the fleet across the channel from France to the UK, inside the Isle of Wight and then around Tuskar Rock and the Fastnet Rock in Ireland, before returning to France.
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