title: Isabelle Joschke
text: # Isabelle Joschke
  
  Isabelle Joschke is an offshore sailor of dual nationality of German and French she was born on 27 January 1977 in Munich, Germany.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  She was born in Munich on 27 January 1977 and has German father and a French mother and therefore has dual nationality. Her childhood was spent in both Geneva and Paris. She discovered sailing at the age of five, sailing an Optimist on a family holiday on the lakes of Austria. Fifteen years later, she did an internship in the Glénans, which definitely communicated her taste for the wide.
  
  She has a master's degree in classical literature at the Sorbonne.
  
  ## Sailing career
  
  ### 2017–present IMOCA 60
  
  She competed in the 2020–2021 Vendée Globe IMOCA 60 onboard MACSF. She had to retire from the race while approaching cape horn due to keel RAM failure.
  
  