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Young Quebec sailor, 17, aims to challenge gender stereotypes in sailing

At 17, Jasmine Pernot is set to become the youngest skipper and one of only three women leading crews in Quebec’s new offshore sailing race, hoping to show other young women they belong at the helm.Jasmine Pernot will lead a crew of seven in the inaugural St-Laurent 400, a 400-nautical-mile race that begins in Tadoussac, at the mouth of the Saguenay River on Quebec’s North Shore, on Aug. 6 and finishes in the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.”Everyone has been looking forward to this race because it’s a format we haven’t had yet in Quebec,” Pernot said…

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