Australian Wendy Tuck has become the first female skipper to win a round the world yacht race.
Sydneysider Tuck has guided Sanya Serenity Coast to overall victory in the Clipper Round the World race in Liverpool, England on Friday.
The event comprising 13 separate races spanning more than 40,000 nautical miles, has been contested by 11 boats with amateur crews and an experienced skipper.
Thousands of fans watched the teams return to Liverpool, nearly a year after 12 yachts left the city.
Sanya Serenity Coast has been on top of the overall standings since the Australian leg of the race in January.
"I don't think it's about being a woman," Tuck said.
"It's just do what I do. But I am very proud and even prouder of my team.
"They are the ones that did all the work and considering many had never sailed before, what they have accomplished is incredible."
Another female sailor, England's Nikki Henderson was skipper of the second boat overall, Visit Seattle.
More than 700 sailors representing 41 nations have participated in the 2017-18 event, which included last year's Sydney to Hobart on it's schedule.
Race chairman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail solo and non-stop around the world, said: "There's never been a race, a round the world race, where you've had the two leading skippers both be women.
"This is a first. And when you look at what they are racing against, the experience of the other clipper race skippers, you realise that this is really very special.
"The impact of the success of both Wendy and Nikki cannot be underestimated.
"If this gets even one more girl start sailing and dreaming big, then I'll consider everything we have done over the last eleven months a huge success."
