Jan Partridge is the only woman owner/skipper in the race and is a most experienced yachtswoman, having sailed in four Sydney to Coffs Harbour races, one to Lord Howe Island and two Sydney to Gold Coast races, with excellent results in each. From Coffs Harbour on the NSW North Coast, her ambition is to become the first woman skipper to win a major ocean race in Australia, something she went close to doing in the last Gold Coast race, when she sailed Outrageous into seventh overall.