Teresa Remiszewska

Teresa Remiszewska (born 19 June 1928 in Międzychód, Poland – died 2 March 2002 in Sopot) was a Polish sailor, yacht captain, sailing instructor and pioneer of women's solo sailing in Poland. She was also a journalist and jailed in late 1982 for her political activism.

Life and work Teresa was the youngest of three daughters born to Jadwiga and Kazimierz Remiszewski. During the German occupation of Poland during World War II, she was educated in clandestine classes, and after the war ended, she studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

She married the first time in 1948 and moved to Nowa Huta. From 1965 on, after her divorce, she lived in Gdynia, taking jobs at the yacht clubs Stal and Gryf, and then at the Paris Commune Shipyard as a yacht captain and sailing instructor.

Voyages Cup of Polish Sailing Association in Gdańsk for Teresa Remiszewska. In 1970, she was the first Polish woman to make a solo voyage around the Baltic Sea on the yacht Zenit, taking a 690-mile route. For this feat, she was nicknamed "First Lady of the Baltic Sea"

Sailing single-handed aboard the yacht Komodor in 1972, Remiszewska became the fourth woman in sailing history to cross the Atlantic alone (in a time of 57 days, 3 hours and 18 minutes) and described her ocean voyage to the United States in her book Out of the Bitterness of Salt, My Joy, which was reissued in 2019 by the Bernardinum Publishing House.

Under the pseudonym Urszula Karpinska, Remiszewska translated Norman Davies' work White Eagle, Red Star, covering the Polish–Soviet War and printed by the Polish underground press.

Honors and awards For her sailing accomplishments, she was honored with, among other things: an entry in the Pantheon of Gdynia, a Star in the Avenue of Distinguished Sea People in Rewa and a plaque in the Avenue of Polish Sailing in the Mariusz Zaruski Basin in Gdynia.