If you can dream it, you can do it.
In love with the sea.I have always been in love with the sea, maybe especially because we don’t have one in Austria, and it was always special to go on holidays by the sea. So when I had my first contact with sailing on family sailing trips in the Adriatic sea when I was 10 years old, I started to wonder what’s out there and at some point started dreaming of sailing around the world.
Lisa Berger
Age 34
Born in Innsbruck, Austria
Crossed the Atlantic 2x
First boat was a Mini 6.50
Loves her Border Collie
Favourite freezedried food onboard: Pasta Carbonara with Tabasco
No offshore sailing without music
Dreams of racing solo around the world
How it all started.
I didn’t chose the typical way and never sailed any dinghies as a kid. My family started doing holiday sailing trips in the Adriatic sea when I was 10 years old, that’s how I made contact with sailing for the first time. I started racing quite late, first on lake Attersee in Austria when I was 23 in 2013 and then started crewed racing at sea in 2016, did my first Atlantic crossing in the ARC in 2017.. started doublehanded racing in 2019, when I won the first European Championship in mixed doublehanded offshore racing. Also I had the dream of doing the Mini Transat for a while already and 2019 was the year where I set foot on a Mini for the first time and then did my first official Mini race in 2020. It was then 3 years of preparation and qualification for the Mini Transat 2023 with many great qualifying races like the Acores race, the Mini Fastnet and many more, and I also did the Figaro 3 race around Italy in 2021 and 2022, aswell as other international races.
Race’s history
ARC 2017Baltic 500 2019 + 2020European Championship Mixed Offshore 2019Gran Premio d’Italia 2020Mini Fastnet 2021 + 2022 + 2023Nastro Rosa Veloce 2021 + 2022Solo Med 2022 + 2023Les Sables - Les Acores - Les Sables 2022World Championship Mixed Offshore 2022Rolex Middle Sea Race 2022Plastimo Lorient 2023Puru Transgascogne 2023Mini Transat 2023