SOMERS POINT, N.J., June 4, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Lynda Corrado had a top managerial job, lived in a posh California community and was an avid sailor when she decided to challenge sailing's most prestigious race and the oldest sporting trophy in the world. In Seas Raging: White Horse Flying (now available through 1stBooks), the author details her grueling fight to enter the first women's team in the America's Cup race, the corrupt politics that defeated her and the ultimate prize of knowing herself.
She was determined that the 1992 and 1995 races would include a team of women. She committed herself to this goal, sacrificing her beloved sailboat and her life savings. The outcome was not a triumphant one. The women were allowed to participate in race events before the actual competition, but never made it onto the America's Cup. Corrado writes about the corruption, politics and legal questions in San Diego's America's Cup race and how that caused her goal to be deflated.
It was a path she had to travel before she could truly live a healed life, she writes. Her story mimics many women's stories to some degree.
In the years that followed, she asked herself, "Why do we do the things we do?" Was it an attempt to create a positive change in the sport, balance out the world's patriarchal dominance or work through a childhood trauma? No matter what the reason, she felt isolated and humiliated. In the end, Corrado writes that she went from material riches to rags, but also went from rags to riches in her knowledge of self and of the world.
This work is powerfully written as if it were fiction and is told from her voice as she talks with a psychiatrist about why people choose to pursue certain actions. It takes her back to a time when she was affluent enough to afford therapy and the help of various alternative medicine practitioners who gave her a foundation for her search for truth.
Corrado currently lives in New Jersey.
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