It’s fair to say Erica Dawson has had a big year in 2021 for a number of different reasons. She broke her leg in a training accident only five weeks before the Tokyo Olympics, but made a speedy recovery to take her place alongside Micah Wilkinson in the Nacra 17. She also joined the New Zealand SailGP Team and made history when she became the first Kiwi woman to compete in the high-octane sailing circuit.
Erica reflects on the last 18 months, the highs and the lows. She talks about what it was like to be selected for the Olympics only to go through the uncertainty of not knowing if she’d actually get to go and compete, how she coped with breaking her leg in the leadup to the Games and what her experience was actually like in Japan. She also delves into life on the SailGP tour and what it’s like sail on the foiling catamarans.
Erica is also an advocate for women’s sailing and played a leading hand in the development of Yachting New Zealand’s Women and Girls in Sailing Strategy and talks in this podcast about what she’d like to see over the next few years.
Ep 52 - Glenn Ashby and the land speed record
Ep 51 - Simon Gundry and Ceramco New Zealand
Ep 50 - Karl Budge
Ep 49 - Mike Sanderson
Ep 48 - Sharon Ferris-Choat
Ep 47 - Jo Aleh
Ep 46 - Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (49er sailing)
Ep 45 - Steve Ashley and the 1979 Fastnet Race
p 44 - Dan Bernasconi
Ep 43 - Andy Ventura
Ep 41 - Tom Saunders
Ep 40 - Roger ‘Clouds‘ Badham
Ep 39 - Martin Tasker
Ep 38 - Leah Fanstone and Keryn McMaster
Ep 37 - Chris Bouzaid
Ep 36 - Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox
Ep 35 - Tom Ashley
Ep 34 - John Cutler
Ep 33 - Suzanne McFadden
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