Why J/70 Sailor Suzy Leech is “Driving the Bus”(Key West, FL)- In the March 2014 SAILING Magazine issue, Contributing Editor Betsy Crowfoot had a chance to catch up with Suzy Leech, a Jamestown, Rhode Island resident that has been campaigning her J/70 JUNKANOO.
In
Key West Race Week, Suzy had aboard her team some very talented women
sailors- in fact, they were the only all-women team sailing amongst the
fleet’s eight women skippers (women skippers comprised 13.0% of the
fleet!).
Joining
Suzy were America’s Cup team-mates Katie Pettibone and Dawn Riley and
also top-ranked 470 sailor, Elizabeth Kratzig. Collectively, this crew
had several decades of both top-level, Olympic class dinghy racing but
also tens of thousands of miles of offshore racing experience. Read
more about Suzy's adventures in Key West and why they has had so much
fun sailing her J/70 with some great women sailors! SAILING magazine
PDF here.Sailing photo credits- Sharon Green/ Ultimate Sailing For SAILING Magazine iPad subscription information
