When will a Woman helm an America’s Cup AC75?

The AC75 has no grinders, no cyclors, no physical barrier left to hide behind. So why hasn't a woman helmed one yet?

For 175 years, the America’s Cup was a men’s sport. Now, for the first time in history, every AC75 MUST carry a woman on board. But there’s one final frontier: the helm.

The America’s Cup speak to Jo Aleh – the first woman ever to sail an AC75 – Hannah Mills, Odile van Aanholt, and Nathan Outteridge about what it will take to put a woman on the wheel in the world’s most storied and historic yacht race.

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