Tracy Edwards: 'Maiden was either met with antipathy or aggression'

    By Bianca Britton, CNN

    Updated 1215 GMT (2015 HKT) March 15, 2019

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    Tracy Edwards, pictured right, skippered the first all-female crew to sail the Whitbread Round the World Race.
    Photos: Tracy Edwards makes sailing history with Maiden
    Tracy Edwards, pictured right, skippered the first all-female crew to sail the Whitbread Round the World Race.
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    "Maiden was either met with antipathy or aggression -- not really much in between," Edwards tells CNN of the boat her and her crew sailed. "As we got more successful it got worse -- they did not like that at all."