Diaries kept by Judith A. Herbert on the racing yacht TRAITÉ DE ROME

Four private hand-written diaries kept by Judith A. Herbert on board the racing yacht TRAITÉ DE ROME during the second Whitbread Round the World Race, between August 1977 and April 1978. Also includes one printed version of the diary, self-published in 2017.

Administrative / biographical background
Judith (Judy) A. Herbert was born in Cornwall in 1952. She was a crew member on the record-breaking transatlantic voyage of the German-owned yacht KRITER II from Bermuda to Plymouth in 1977. She was then selected to represent the United Kingdom on the TRAITÉ DE ROME, the European entry in the second Whitbread Round the World Race, 1977-1978. The yacht was named in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding document of the European Economic Community in 1957 and sponsored by the Sail for Europe organisation as part of its mission to ‘further the European spirit’. It was the smallest yacht in the race, but finished in third position, while Herbert herself won the Lady Mackworth Challenge Trophy for being the fastest woman around the world. During the event Herbert met her future husband Friedrich-Karl (Fritz) Heinemann (died 2019). He was navigator on the TRAITÉ DE ROME in 1977-1978 and had been on the PETER VON DANZIG for the first Whitbread race in 1973-1974. Her mother Angela Herbert sailed around the world between 1981 and 1983 to raise funds for Cancer Care in Cornwall. With her husband Bill Herbert she ran the Norway Inn at Perranarworthal, Truro.