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Indian Navy sailing vessel Mhadei Sailing with an all-women crew enters Chennai

Indian Navy sailing vessel Mhadei Sailing with an all-women crew enters Chennai

| | 13 Feb 2016, 04:05 pm
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IBNS) The Navy’s famous sailing vessel Mhadei, skippered and crewed by an all-women crew of naval officers for the very first time, entered Chennai Port on Saturday, after participating in the International Fleet Review 2016.

The sail boat had left Visakhapatnam on 9 Feb and is scheduled to make stops at Chennai and Kochi ports enroute before reaching her home port at Goa.

Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi, a Naval Architect, was appointed as the first woman Skipper of Mhadei on 08 Feb just prior to her return voyage. The boat is crewed by Lieutenants P Swathi, Pratibha Jamwal (Air Traffic Control specialists), Vijaya Devi and Sub Lieutenant Payal Gupta (both Education officers).

The sixth member of the crew, Lieutenant B Aishwarya is an Engineer and is expected to join the boat next month.

The women officers are training to form an all-women crew that would attempt to circumnavigate the Globe next year. Mhadei will remain at the Ports of Chennai (13-16 Feb) and Kochi (23-26 Feb) on her return journey.

She will eventually return to Goa on 02 Mar.

This is the first all-women crew to man any ocean-going sailing boat of the Navy. All the crew members are volunteers and are driven by their passion for adventure and a love for sailing and the seas.
 

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