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Joanna "Asia" Pajkowska (born June 13, 1958, in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish sailor, with a rank of captain, a sea life guard, she sailed over 145,000 nautical miles, often in singlehanded or in two-handed races. ==Achievements== Between 1995 and 2002, when living in England, she worked as a member of the sea rescue team on board the Salcombe Lifeboat ship, of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), being one of the very few women members of this British sea rescue organization. She took part in several sea rescue operations. In years 1995, 1997, 1999 she took part in the renowned Fastnet Race regattas, from South England to Ireland. Twice she sailed in the two-handed transatlantic races: in 1986 in the ''Two-Star'' regatta from Plymouth in England to Newport in the US on the catamaran ''Alamatur III'' and in 2001 in the race from Le Havre to Brasil, on the ''Olympic Challenger''. In 2000, on the 40-foot yacht ''Ntombifuti'' she finished 4th in the class (in the field of 24 competitors) in the singlehanded transatlantic race ''OSTAR'', from Plymouth (UK) to Newport (US). For her standing in the race she received the Honour Trophy of the Polish Yachting Association (Polski Związek Żeglarski) in the category of the ''Race of the Year 2000''. She took part in many multi-member team transatlantic races, including a female only crew on the 60-foot S/Y ''Alphagraphics'' in 2001 in the EDS Atlantic Challenge regatta, on course Saint-Malo – Hamburg – Portsmouth – Baltimore – Boston – Saint-Malo. In December 2002 and January 2003, on board S/Y ''Zjawa IV'', she sailed three times around Cape Horn and reached the South Shetland archipelago at Antarctic. In the period between October 2006 and February 2007, in the two-member female only race around the world, on board the 28-foot boat ''Mantra Asia'', she sailed halfway around the world (from Darwin in Australia, across the Indian Ocean to Cape Town in South Africa and further across the Atlantic to Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, and she won her stage of the race. Since 2005 she sails around the Baltic Sea and the North Sea with a base in England. She also does yacht deliveries, sails as a mate on board STS ''Pogoria'', as well as a charter skipper. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joanna Pajkowska」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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