{"id":24296,"date":"2020-03-12T07:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tipandshaft.com\/?p=24296"},"modified":"2020-03-11T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:43:05","slug":"abby-ehler-diversity-is-a-benefit-its-not-a-hirance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailorz.com\/en\/52-super-series-en\/abby-ehler-diversity-is-a-benefit-its-not-a-hirance\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby Ehler: “Diversity is a benefit, it’s not a hindrance”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain\u2019s Abby Ehler<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0three Volvo Ocean Races<\/strong>\u00a0round the world under her belt after starting out with Lisa McDonald and the girls as boat captain and bowman on Amer Sports 2. She returned in 2014-15 with Sam Davies and Team SCA again as boat captain, reprising that same highly responsible post\u00a0on Brunel in the last Volvo<\/strong>. Since last year she has moved from mainly offshore roles to sail on the\u00a052 SUPER SERIES<\/a> as one of the two female pro sailor in the grand prix inshore fleet<\/strong> (with Flavia Tomiselli on Alegre), racing as mid bow on the\u00a0Plattners\u2019 Phoenix team<\/a>. Late last year she completed the first Transatlantic of a modern IMOCA<\/strong>\u00a0in fully crewed \u2018Ocean Race\u2019 mode. Tip & Shaft caught up with Abby in Cape Town\u2026..<\/em><\/p>\n

Abby how did you get into the 52 SUPER SERIES on to the Phoenix team?<\/strong>
\nActually I was\u00a0brought in by Adrian Stead<\/strong>\u00a0last season, partly because I\u2019d run a TP52\u00a0about 10 or 15 years ago, actually Stuart Robinson\u2019s Stay Calm as it was. We ran that campaign for a couple of years. I guess the position that they needed and the weight that they needed helped and\u00a0Ado\u00a0(Stead) to his credit is pretty keen to help get more women into the sport<\/strong>\u00a0at this level. Here I am.<\/p>\n

You have a pretty physical key role as mid bow, how is it operating at this high level?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been fantastic, the sailing is phenomenal. It\u2019s so cutthroat that you just cannot make the slightest mistake or it can be a big problem.<\/p>\n

You have had to raise your game?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a different style, I guess predominantly most of my sailing has been bigger boats and offshore. When you\u2019re offshore the level of detail is perhaps not as key in that mistakes happen over longer periods. Consequently you have a longer period to sort out those mistakes and usually time to recover. This type of sailing the race is an hour long if that. Even the slightest mistake is punished heavily.\u00a0It\u2019s a very, very detailed sport<\/strong>. The boats are very technical and very lightweight. Everyone has their position and you\u2019re doing your job.<\/p>\n

How is it being the only female full time professional on the circuit?<\/strong>
\nI tend think about it from the point of view of how do you not become the only girl or one of a few. I ask myself \u2018what are the barriers to getting involved and what can be done to change that?\u2019 But\u00a0the reality is that you just have to be at this level<\/strong>. It is very physical in most of the roles apart from those that are maybe a bit further back in the boat. You\u2019ve got to be sailing and working at this level. And I think I\u2019ve realised that even considering myself relatively experienced\u00a0there’s still a lot to learn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Such as?<\/strong>
\nI think it\u2019s just details. It\u2019s the way you lay your sheets and what goes where. The mechanics are just so critical, and it\u2019s split second timing. And you don\u2019t want to mess it up.\u00a0Getting your foot in the door is obviously the biggest barrier<\/strong>\u00a0and I think that is gender irrelevant. The harsh reality is it\u2019s hard for anyone to get to this level and even harder for women. There aren\u2019t many women in this field so it\u2019s hard to look around and think \u2018how do I get there\u2019 when you can only see one girl or two girls, \u2018there must be a reason for that\u2019.<\/p>\n

Is it harder on the boat being a girl in your role?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t think so. It is about doing your job. I guess there’s a little bit more pressure because\u00a0you don\u2019t want to be the one that fucks up<\/strong>. There’s that fear of someone looking at you and saying \u2018oh it\u2019s the girl that made the mistake\u2019 because you get that tag. I think in terms of creating change, with a lot of the sustainability and diversity agreements being signed by classes it\u2019s understanding that it\u2019s about bringing more women into the sport for a sustainable future and understanding that\u00a0diversity is a benefit it\u2019s not a hindrance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Your helm Tina Plattner is proving a very competitive driver and a great inspiration?<\/strong>
\nShe\u2019s fantastic, what works very well is that she\u2019s very tuned in to Cam (Cameron Dunn) and Gerry Mitchell who is main trimmer.\u00a0Tina has got a great feel for the boat<\/strong>\u00a0and is able to zone in and do her job, I think that\u2019s sometimes a struggle with owner-drivers, they like to look around and like to be part of the decision making process and sometimes that\u2019s an adversity. You do need that helmsman to just lock in and trust the people around them and Tina does that exceptionally well. Mixing it up in some of those starts I would be absolutely crapping myself if I was helming the boat so she does a really great job and there’s a really pleasant environment on the boat.<\/p>\n

So you are taking steps to do another Round the World race, The Ocean Race?<\/strong>
\nI think if you\u2019d asked me that two years ago I would\u2019ve said \u2018No that\u2019s it, I’m not doing that again’ because I always say that.\u00a0It\u2019s such a hard race<\/strong>\u00a0I mean physically, mentally you come away spent, back at absolutely ground zero mentally and physically. But\u00a0it\u2019s in your blood<\/strong>\u00a0and once that fever starts building again it\u2019s really hard not to be a part of it.\u00a0Recently Charlie Enright called me up<\/strong>\u00a0and said would I come and do the delivery from Salvador to Lorient on the Open 60.\u00a0I was very apprehensive<\/strong>\u00a0about this whole Open 60 in general. I\u2019d never sailed one before and for that reason I don\u2019t know how to sail foiling boats and it just struck me as a league above anything I could aspire to.\u00a0The reality is now that having done that delivery is that it is just sailing<\/strong>, it\u2019s trimming sails and driving a boat and that doesn\u2019t change. There’s a slightly different aspect to it with the foiling but the guts of it are the same. The systems are still the same and someone still needs to be on board to understand the systems and stop them from breaking down. All in all it was a very interesting trip and\u00a0I came out of it thinking yes, I definitely want to be a part of this<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We are likely to see you with 11th\u00a0Hour then? And how was it on the IMOCA in Ocean Race fully crewed mode coming back across the Atlantic?<\/strong>
\nYes,\u00a0we are still talking<\/strong>, and the boat is currently in refit so they\u2019re in a bit of a down phase at the moment. The plan is to do a bit more sailing with them this season. We were six on board,\u00a0we went in the Ocean Race configuration, five sailors and one OBR. In terms of the ergonomics of the boat its was nigh on impossible. It\u2019s ergonomically set up for one. It was absolutely horrendous,\u00a0it was terrible<\/strong>. I think that was the whole point, to work out what needs to happen to make it live-able and sailable by the whole crew configuration.\u00a0The motion of the boat is very similar to a RIB<\/strong>\u00a0where you get that continual hard punching so that makes sleeping very difficult. I think that is going to be a key factor, setting up a sleeping arrangement for however many crew you have off watch. And inside even down to the galley and toilet was very interesting It needs to be thought through for the new set up.\u00a0Space is a factor.\u00a0<\/strong>If you are doing a manoeuvre with the full crew on deck you don\u2019t need everything to be concentrated in one place as for example on Alex Thomson\u2019s boat where everything comes out a central pit. You can have it slightly spread out so you can have two people on the grinders, one operating the winch one person driving and one on the bow.\u00a0We just looked at what\u2019s going to be the best set up<\/strong>\u00a0so that you\u2019re not standing on top of each other which we were on the existing boat.<\/p>\n

What watch system did you run and how did it work?<\/strong>
\nWe run it so there’s\u00a0two on deck, a floating navigator<\/strong>, rolling every couple of hours so every two hours you have one person change.<\/p>\n

And compared to the VO65 then very different\u2026.<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s half the amount of people that you would\u2019ve had on deck.\u00a0It\u2019s a different game<\/strong>\u00a0and the fact that your predominantly indoors with the hatch closed you can talk to each other and you\u2019re not getting pounded by waves every few seconds.<\/p>\n

So a very different experience\u2026.physically easier<\/strong>
\nYou\u2019d think so, from spending two weeks in the Southern Ocean getting pounded by freezing water, to not have that it\u2019s got to be a gain in terms of personal endurance. But from that side of things\u00a0it\u2019s very different not having the apparent wind on your face<\/strong>, not having that visual first-hand look, seeing what\u2019s ahead of you, waves coming over, looking at the sails, it\u2019s almost\u00a0like a confined environment looking through windows or cameras<\/strong>, it\u2019s a very different side of sailing compared to being exposed.\u00a0It takes a while to adapt, you\u2019ve spent your whole life being exposed to the elements, that\u2019s how you gage your speed, your angle, your wave pattern so\u00a0it\u2019s very different<\/strong>. You do adapt to it but with change it takes time.<\/p>\n

And so in terms of the composition of a crew\u2019s skillsets it is going to be everyone \u2018polyvalent\u2019 all rounders?<\/strong>
\nYes,\u00a0everybody has got to be able to do everything<\/strong>\u00a0whether that\u2019s driving, trimming, doing the bow and everything in between is the key. For me personally what I\u2019m bringing to that team is\u00a0a boat captain role<\/strong>, as well as being able to do all the other jobs. I wouldn\u2019t say that driving and trimming is not yet my best skill set but it can definitely be brought on and worked on, it\u2019s time on the boat. And Charlie is definitely looking to trial and train other girls and guys because I would\u2019ve thought the attrition rate could potentially be quite high even just the speed the boats are going.<\/p>\n

And what other sailing do you have planned?<\/strong>
\nThis year I’m going to go do a little\u00a0more dinghy sailing<\/strong>, do a bit\u00a0more foiling<\/strong>. I’m going to go to Pro Vela in Spain and am hoping to tick some boxes there. Otherwise I’ve got lots of irons in the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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