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Meet Donald Lawson, the Ambitious Sailor Who Aims to Break 15 World Records in the Next 5 Years

Lawson also plans to become the first american to solo circumnavigate the globe in 70 days aboard his fast ocean trimaran, defiant., jaclyn trop, jaclyn trop's most recent stories.

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At nine years old, Captain Donald Lawson recalls walking the marinas in Annapolis, asking anyone on the docks if he could give them a hand—cleaning boats, folding sails, or carrying gear back to the boathouse.

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“The captain of the Lady Maryland allowed me to steer the boat,” Lawson recalls. “I asked him how far I could take it, and he said, ‘Technically, you could sail it around the world.’ It was a real lightbulb, life-changing moment for me, and I started working toward that goal.”

More than three decades later, Lawson, 41, is gearing up to break from 15 to 18 world sailing records by 2028. “When you compete for a record, you are competing with the past, present and future,” he says. “For me, the only way I can show who I am and what I am is to succeed in these voyages.”

This fall, he’ll set out to become the first American—and, by extension, the first African-American—sailor to circumnavigate the globe solo in 70 days on a trimaran. He will be the fifth person to attempt such a feat—a groundbreaking goal for a sailor who had few African-American role models to look up to.

Sailing was not diverse in the 1990s. By the time Lawson set foot on his first schooner, only one African-American sailor, Teddy Seymour, had sailed the globe solo, completing a 16-month journey via the world’s canals in 1987.

“People took me in because they could see my passion and drive,” he says. “I had to learn to do everything on board just to get the opportunity to help out on the docks and sail.”

After high school, Lawson taught sailing to children at the Downtown Sailing Center in Baltimore. At the same time, he earned his racing chops crewing on raceboats in events like the Governor’s Cup in the Chesapeake Bay as well as local regattas. In the winter of 2005, Bruce Schwab, who had circumnavigated the world the previous year in his 60-foot yacht, Ocean Planet , invited Lawson out of the blue to come sailing with him in Portland, Maine.

The first night on the water, the pair were caught in a snowstorm. Ever the competitor, Schwab wanted to use the storm’s winds to increase boat speed, rather than seeking shelter in port. Lawson clearly liked that idea. “The boat could sail perfectly fine under autopilot,” Schwab told Outside Online . “But Donald was so thrilled to be there that he refused to come below, preferring to sit outside and drive the boat for hours, upwind, in the snow.”

It was that kind of mettle that is prompting Lawson to go after successive solo-speed records. But he has more than just glory in mind. Last year, he founded the Dark Seas Initiative, a non-profit organization with the aim to increase diversity in the sport by inspiring the next generation of sailors. Lawson also chairs the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee for US Sailing, the sport’s national governing body.

As part of its outreach, the Dark Seas Initiative will be broadcast into hundreds of classrooms as Lawson attempts to break his records. The cameras will record the often-grueling conditions to give a sense of the reality of offshore sailing. The goal is to reach young people who might never have considered sailing as a hobby, much less a profession.

“Sailing requires a boat, and when you are struggling to live, a boat is the last thing on your mind,” Lawson says. “Yacht Clubs have historically not been very inclusive to women or minorities, so what you have is an uncomfortable scenario where individuals are afraid to ask and the clubs don’t know how to be inclusive.”

Lawson acquired his pedigreed trimaran, Defiant, in April, likening it to the Formula 1 of boats for its speed and performance. Having started life as Groupama 2 , the French-built trimaran was launched in 2004, using the most advanced materials of that time. It was the last ORMA 60 produced, but won multiple races, including three years of Grand Prix titles and the 2007 Transat Jacques Vabre. The multihull got its new name from Lawson’s commitment to “defying the odds” and his favorite show, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .

Lawson spent the first months along the California coast, visiting different yacht clubs and sailing centers, and even sailing into San Francisco Bay. He is now based in Acapulco, having put 6,000 nautical miles on Defiant.

“He’s an adventurer,” says Rich Jepsen, a board member of US Sailing. “Nobody does that much work without having an inner drive to do it—like the saying about summiting Everest, he’s doing it because it’s there. But he’s also turning his personal ambition into a proven model for doing good by inspiring the school children who watch him.”

Those first 6,000 miles have taken a toll. Recent images of Defiant in Acapulco show it looking the worse for wear, with visible hull and sail damage. Some sailing websites report the boat lost its engines. Lawson says the boat is being repaired locally and he plans to soon sail through the Panama Canal, up the Atlantic coast to his home port of Baltimore, where it will be hauled out. “It will undergo testing, modifications and upgrades for the upcoming record season,” he says.

The record-breaking attempts could start as early as next fall, with the Newport-Bermuda race. Lawson is going after the record held by his mentor Steve Fossett, who sailed the route in 1 day, 16 hours in 1999. “If time doesn’t allow for that, then the next record attempt would be the Around the World Voyage in October,” he says.

The campaign is then planned to continue through 2028.

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As Mexican Navy spots a capsized boat, wife of missing Baltimore sailor holds out hope

A Mexican search plane spotted a yacht believed to belong to the missing Baltimore sailor Donald Lawson 275 nautical miles off the coast of Acapulco, the Mexican Navy’s press office said Tuesday.

A spokeswoman in the navy press office said the 60-foot trimaran racing yacht Defiant had been spotted capsized in the ocean. Rescue crews have not yet been able to reach the vessel because of bad weather, she said.

After the navy’s initial report, the local Mexican search and rescue station said later Tuesday that while crews spotted a boat, they are not confirming it to be Lawson’s Defiant .

U.S. Coast Guard officials and Lawson’s family were working Tuesday to get more information about the search that continues hundreds of miles off Mexico’s Pacific Coast.

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Petty Officer Hunter Schnabel, spokesman for the Coast Guard district that includes the search area, said U.S. officials confirmed that a boat has been located. They are working to receive photos of the vessel from Mexican authorities.

“We are not giving up hope and we are remaining hopeful of his return,” Lawson’s wife, Jacqueline, wrote in a statement Tuesday night. “He is an experienced sailor who is well-equipped to expertly handle these types of challenging weather conditions in the Pacific. We are continuing to pray that Donald will be found and will soon return home safely to his family, friends, and sailing supporters.”

The hurricane season in Mexico’s Pacific Coast has complicated the search and rescue operation. The Mexican Navy said crews are doing everything they can to reach the vessel. The spokeswoman said the search plane detected no flares, electronic messages or any sign of Lawson from the boat.

The U.S. sailing community, meanwhile, was holding on to hope that Lawson would turn up safely. As a Black professional sailor from Baltimore, he is well-known for breaking ground in a sport dominated by white men.

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Lawson’s wife and sister, Victoria, spoke to news reporters Monday in Annapolis and urged authorities to continue the search for the missing sailor.

He was sailing an ORMA 60, the class of some of the fastest racing boats ever built. The Defiant could reach speeds of 40 knots, more than five times faster than a conventional sailboat. His sailboat had won races under a previous name when captained by the famous French yachtsman Franck Cammas.

Lawson was also believed to be sailing with a registered emergency radio beacon known as an EPIRB. In Facebook posts about his preparations, he mentions the emergency beacon.

A functioning, water-activated beacon mounted to a boat will automatically transmit its position to a satellite if the device becomes submerged. The devices may also be activated manually.

A Woodlawn native, Lawson has been missing for nearly two weeks off Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Because he was sailing in Mexico’s territorial waters, the Mexican Navy is leading the search.

Lawson has worked to bring the sport to African Americans sailors. He serves as chairman of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee for U.S. Sailing, the national governing body of the sport.

In Baltimore, the nonprofit Downtown Sailing Center in Locust Point urged its members to keep Lawson in their thoughts and prayers. Lawson learned to sail on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor before joining the Downtown Sailing Center in the 1990s as its first Black summer camp instructor. He went on to work as the head instructor.

He was planning this fall to attempt a world record by becoming the first American to sail around the world in 74 days.

Lawson departed alone from Acapulco on July 5, heading for the Panama Canal en route to Baltimore before his world record attempt. On July 9, he messaged his wife that he was having trouble with the hydraulic rigging and lost engine power. He was relying on a wind generator. Three days later, he messaged his wife that a storm had knocked out the wind generator.

The two decided that it would be best for him to turn around instead of continuing on to the Panama Canal. Jacqueline said he had 25% battery power, and no way of charging.

Reporters Hugo Kugiya and David Lance contributed to this article.

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Lawson’s trimaran capsized off Mexico

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(July 26, 2023) – The family of missing sailor Donald Lawson reports a vessel found capsized off the coast of Mexico is, indeed, Defiant, Lawson’s 60-foot racing trimaran.

The U.S. Coast Guard informed Jacqueline Lawson, Donald’s wife, that the Mexican Navy was on the scene. Jacqueline positively identified the vessel as Defiant.

A U.S. Coast Guard Cutter has been dispatched to help in searching for the missing sailor from Baltimore, MD and is en route, 150 nautical miles out from the location.

The Coast Guard told Jacqueline yesterday that a vessel was found 315 nautical miles south/southwest of Acapulco.

Lawson had left Acapulco on July 5, 2023, singlehanding the ORMA 60 bound for the Panama Canal and ultimately Baltimore to prepare for a single-handed round the world record attempt this fall.

He communicated on July 9 that he had been experiencing problems with his hydraulic rigging and was without engine power, relying solely on a wind generator. But when he lost his wind generator due to a storm on July 12, he decided to return to Acapulco but contact was lost later that day .

Following a proclamation in June 2020 that he’d identified 12 records held by the World Sailing Speed Record Council that he planned to break, Lawson bought the ORMA 60 in April 2022 to pursue this initiative.

However, equipment issues and accidents marred his ownership of the boat which delayed his record-setting pursuits of which none were ever achieved.

UPDATE : As of July 27th, there has been no new information on the boat or Lawson.

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Mexican authorities inspect capsized sailboat in Pacific, find no signs of Donald Lawson

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Since acquiring a 60-foot trimaran in March 2022, Tori and Donald Lawson worked to ready the vessel for a circumnavigation attempt.

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Captain Donald Lawson last year acquired a 60-foot trimaran which he named Defiant. The sailboat is an ORMA 60, a classification of trimarans that are fast but also extremely difficult to handle, sailors say.

His vessel, Defiant, was found about 360 miles from the Mexican shore. Mexican authorities “reported there were no signs of Donald’s whereabouts at the site where the trimaran was found capsized,” Jacqueline said in the statement.

The Mexican authorities, which have been spearheading the search for Lawson in the Pacific, continued their efforts on Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the Lawson family. The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its efforts as of Friday evening.

The family spokesperson, Ray Feldmann, said Saturday that Jacqueline Lawson is grateful to both agencies for “their tireless efforts to locate her husband.”

“She remains hopeful that he will be found alive and will return home soon,” Feldmann said.

Lawson, a Baltimore sailor who had been preparing to sail alone around the world, set out from Acapulco, Mexico bound for Baltimore earlier this month but lost engine power . He last communicated with his wife on July 12 and Mexican and American authorities have been searching for his sailboat and for him for the past week. His last known position, on July 13, was about 300 miles south of Acapulco.

His boat had been spotted Sunday from a Mexican plane, but Thursday night was the first time a ship was able to locate and approach it. There had remained a possibility that Lawson was inside the capsized boat, but Mexican authorities evaluated it and determined the sailboat was, indeed, Lawson’s and that he was not aboard.

Because of the Mexican authorities’ search, the Coast Guard cutter Active, deployed this week to help in the search, did not inspect the sailboat. Instead, it searched the ocean Friday for any signs of Lawson, said Coast Guard spokesperson Hunter Schnabel.

Petty Officer Edward Wargo, with the Coast Guard, said on Saturday that the agency had suspended its search as of Friday evening, pending new information. That new information, Wargo said, might be someone spotted in the water along the search area or some kind of emergency position-indicating notification.

At this point, any hope for Lawson’s survival likely hinges on him being on a life raft. In Friday’s statement, Jacqueline said she has “not received any information about the location of the life raft that was on board [Defiant] when Donald left Acapulco on July 5, 2023.”

“You can keep on going for a long, long time in survival scenarios,” said France-based sailor Conrad Colman, who has completed three circumnavigations, including one solo.

However, it is challenging to survive under such conditions.

Lawson last year acquired a 60-foot trimaran which he named Defiant . The sailboat is an ORMA 60, a classification of trimarans that are fast but also extremely difficult to handle, sailors say.

He had been on the West Coast with the boat and was planning to sail it through the Panama Canal to Baltimore, where he’d planned to embark on a record-setting solo circumnavigation of the globe.

Baltimore Sun reporters Dillon Mullan and Darcy Costello contributed to this article.

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Donald Lawson’s Trimaran Found Capsized in the Pacific, Lawson Still Missing

Lawson is a professional sailor from Baltimore who hoped to become the fastest person to sail solo and nonstop around the world in a boat no longer than 60 feet. He also hoped to become one of the few African Americans to set world records in the sport of sailing. Lawson and his wife started the Dark Seas Project , an effort to promote more diversity in the sport of sailing. He is also the chairman of the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee for U.S. Sailing, the national governing body for the sport.

Lawson set off alone, on July 5, from Acapulco, Mexico, en route to his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, by way of the Panama Canal. His plan was to begin his solo circumnavigation, leaving from Baltimore, in October.

After eight days at sea, Lawson was last heard from on July 13. On July 24, a Mexican Navy plane spotted a capsized boat later identified as the Defiant, about 300 miles south of Acapulco. The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched a 210-foot patrol boat called the Active to assist in the search-and-rescue operation.

Sadly, Lawson was not found on his trimaran.  A sliver of hope remains, however.

The New York Times reports that when Mr. Lawson set sail from Mexico aboard the Defiant , the boat was equipped with a survival suit, a 12-foot dinghy and a life raft. The Mexican Navy found the survival suit and the dinghy during its search mission.

But as of Sunday, the Mexican Navy had not found the life raft after repeated searches in the area where the Defiant was found.

“I view this as encouraging news,” his wife Ms. Lawson said in her statement on Sunday. “I believe Donald used the life raft when the Defiant became disabled, and that he is still out there somewhere.”

She added that she and her family remained “hopeful and optimistic” that her husband would be found alive.

Donald Lawson’s Trimaran Found Capsized in the Pacific, Lawson Still Missing — 2 Comments

Did he take an EPIRB and PLB with him? If not why not?

We will have to wait and see what effect his disappearance has on diversity in sailing. I can’t imagine it will be positive.

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Some people get in the pool and splash around. Others dive in and make waves; such is the case with solo ocean racer Donald Lawson. Or rather, Captain Donald Lawson, founder of the Dark Seas Project and a 40-year old sailor out to break a few records.

Lawson plans to take on 35 different offshore sailing benchmarks in the next 10 years aboard his vessel Defiant, an ORMA 60 (60-foot trimaran) which just happens to be one of the world’s fastest sailing vessels. Each event will be solo-sailed. Some of the better known races include the Transpacific, Miami to NYC, Bermuda to Plymouth plus the Newport to Bermuda, the TransAtlantic and a bigee—become the first African American man to sail around the world solo non-stop.

Of interest to San Francisco Bay racers, one of his upcoming challenges is to best the overall sail time for the California to Hawaii transpacific route. Lawson will attempt this nonstop circumnavigation seeking to finish in 70 days; the record is 74.

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“To compete on this level of solo ocean racing, you need a boat that will allow competition with a high potential to win. Defiant was built in 2004 for legendary sailor Franck Cammas. On Groupama 2, this team won over 70% of their races, plus four championships.” In 2011, Lawson was on track to purchase G2 but the deal fell through; the vessel sold to a U.S. crew and was renamed Mighty Merloe. The pro-am Mighty Merloe crew dominated West Coast racing, setting a slew of records.

In 2019, COVID-19 brought an end to the run and the tri was put up for sale; Lawson acquired her. Defiant is the last build ORMA 60 and is by far the fastest of her family. Head-to-head, no ORMA 60 can compete with her record and performance.

Captain and team are prepping Defiant for solo operation, “She hasn’t been sailed shorthanded since 2007 when she won the Transat with Jacques Vabre. As a result, many changes are necessary. One the first things I did was reinstall the central tiller to permit steering from three locations, including near the throttle. We have also identified a number of additional improvements that will make her a true ocean-going boat—adding automatic bilge pump, radar, wind generator and more.”

The captain says clean energy is a commonsense thing to also include. “For advice, I am fortunate to have input from Bruce Schwab of OceanPlanet Energy and Jay Davis’s Waypoint Racing input. As I prepare Defiant, I want to get things right the first time.”

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A proponent of inclusion and youth sailing, for several years Lawson and his wife were paying out-of-pocket expenses for all their outreach efforts. “Early on, people would offer assistance but we couldn’t take the help. This year, we created the 501(c)(3) organization Dark Seas Project so that we can expand our reach and accept donations,” he notes. “We continue to offer presentations and look for ways to bring sailing to those who traditionally don’t have access.”

This past summer he traveled up and down the West Coast, visiting centers, clubs and organizations talking about solo ocean racing. “I want to provide everyone that I meet with a dose of inspiration. When I started sailing, there wasn’t anyone in my culture to look at and imagine emulating.”

“We have been fortunate that family and friends believe in what we are trying to do and support our efforts! A number of companies and individuals have donated funds and gear to the program. A special thank you to T-Mobile, Mustang Survival, Crooked Halo, ATN Corp., U.S. Sailing, Expedition Foods, the Captain (check!), RinseKit and SailM8 for supporting our program.”

Lawson also leads the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee at U.S. Sailing. His main duty is to help guide a team of committee members who are pushing U.S. Sailing into the future. “A top objective is to develop a DE&I template for other organizations. In this role I will speak with yacht club members tasked with developing their own DE&I missions, in addition to my own solo ocean campaign.”

Around the World if You Want

Lawson was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. His father was a Baptist preacher and employee in NASA’s Office of Inspector General. His mother was a computer technician and community counselor. At the age of nine, his mother enrolled him in the Police Athletic League (PAL).

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No Sign of Donald Lawson As ‘Defiant’ Reportedly Spotted off Acapulco

We wish we had good news to share, but for now we can only hope that Donald Lawson is somewhere safe. However, East Coast news stations are reporting that Captain Lawson’s ORMA 60 trimaran Defiant has been found, capsized. The Mexican navy’s press office said a Mexican search plane had spotted a yacht, which they believed to be Defiant , 275 nautical miles off the coast of Acapulco, the Baltimore Banner reported on Tuesday. Though after its initial report, the Banner wrote, the navy “… are not confirming it to be Lawson’s Defiant. ” Crews have been unable to reach the vessel due to weather and sea conditions.

According to WMAR , Lawson’s wife Jacqueline reached out to the Annapolis School of Seamanship on Friday. On July 9, Lawson had advised he was without engine power and relying solely on a wind generator. Jacqueline’s next, and last, communication with her husband was on July 13, at which time he advised he had “25% of battery power and no way of charging” after his wind generator was damaged in a storm.

“We decided that it would be best for him to turn back around and head back to Acapulco to look over these issues instead of continuing to the Panama Canal,” she told reporters. At that time he was 285 miles from Acapulco.

Lawson’s brother, Quentin Lawson Senior, told the New York Post that Donald had “dramatically reduced his vessel’s speed late on July 12,” when he went from 11 to less than 3 knots, and that Defiant had “turned course, going against the wind late into the evening.”

“‘I believe something happened at that moment,’ he told NBC News .”

In a social media post for his nonprofit organization Dark Seas Project prior to his departure from Acapulco, Lawson wrote about his preparation, his sail plan and his safety equipment, which included, “Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) linked to satellites so local Coast Guards can find us. We also have a number of satellite phones onboard that provide our Global Positioning System (GPS) …” Defiant was reportedly also equipped with two life rafts, multiple radios and a survival suit; however there are no reports of flares, or electronic messages or signals coming from the boat. A US Coast Guard spokesperson told the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday afternoon that the agency “did not have information on the reported sighting” and was “having trouble getting in touch with the Rescue Coordination Centers in Acapulco.”

This morning has brought no new information. We’ll continue keeping tabs on the situation. In the meantime, we all hope Captain Lawson is found alive and well.

It would be helpful to know the position where the Mexican Navy located the stricken vessel. Boatwatch doesn’t have it on their report either yet asking for cruisers for assistance in locating the skipper. Thanks.

In the evening, I light as many votive candles that I have and make a wish for his safety. Also light a safe long burning tall candle that reflects in the window all night. Love this man and his dream! Please please hoping for a miracle … surprise, I am here! Cinde Delmas

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