Congrats to Magenta Project Class 2024

by Lydia Mullan, SAIL magazine
The 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race was the first sailing race that I ever tuned in for. I was in college at the time—hard to believe it’s been 10 years—and photos from the likes of Amory Ross, Brian Carlin, and Corinna Halloran inspired a teenage version of me to set my sights on working in marine journalism.

Corinna Halloran was one of two onboard reporters for Team SCA, an all-female crew and the first women to compete in the race in about a decade. The team included notable sailors including IMOCA skipper Sam Davies; Ocean Race veterans Abby Ehler, Dee Caffari, Liz Wardley, and Justine Mettreaux; and Olympian/coach Sally Barkow, to name just a few.

“When we got our title sponsorship, we told them that we were not sailing around the world in a pink boat just because we are girls,” Barkow said in a presentation at the Women’s Keelboat Championships a few years later. “They came back and said, ‘Oh, don’t worry, it’s not pink. It’s magenta’.” – Full report