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Tania Aebi 

Tania Aebi was a seventeen-year-old New York City school dropout bicycle messenger in 
1987 when she decided to become the first American woman to sail around the world 
alone. She had a twenty-six-foot boat and no nautical tradition when she set out. She 
admits to cheating on her Coast Guard navigation exam. In a hurricane off Bermuda, 
generator gone, her life in peril, she taught herself navigation in a hurry by flashlight 
and made port. Two years later her record-making circuit of Planet Earth was complete.