Lydia Barber

Lydia is a 21 year old sailor living in the Hamble, with ambitions of a career in offshore sailing. Lydia started sailing at 16 in the Laser on a small lake in the North of England. This snowballed into years of campaigning in the woman’s olympic class, with the goal of representing GBR at an international event. In 2021 that goal was achieved. Since that event, Lydia decided to take a step back from ILCA’s and move into yacht sailing. Since starting yachting in March 2021 Lydia has gained 9,000 sailing miles and taken part in the RORC season, and her first 600 miler the Middle Sea Race. Lydia enjoys most jobs on the boat, from bow to driving, her current goal is be proficient at every role onboard. Lydia is excited to join Maiden and complete longer passages at sea”