Pamela Lee: Participation in water sports can be life altering

Meet the sailor and world-record holder who wants to be the first Irish woman to race around the world short-handed 

Pamela Lee: I want people to see sailing, and myself as someone they could come to if they needed guidance or advice or just look at the sport and think, ‘Yeah, I could do that’.

"Offshore sailing, as a profession, is something that few women take up. They simply don’t know it’s an option for them,” begins Pamela Lee.

This is probably why this writer had never heard of any woman doing offshore sailing for a career before I discovered Pamela Lee