In spring 2021, Malia White accomplished a first in her yachting career: a crossing of the Atlantic! Malia posted a photo of herself smiling in the bridge at the helm of a boat on Instagram on April 15 with the location tagged as the Atlantic Ocean. She captioned the photo, "Happy to be doing my first Atlantic Crossing." In the comments of the photo, Captain Sandy Yawn wrote, "Proud of you!"

Captain Sandy has always been supportive of Malia's lofty goals in the world of charter yachts. Malia said that Captain Sandy told her, "Keep going — you can be a captain, you can do this," per Vulture. "And throughout the years, she'd text me or send me messages like, 'What are you doing? You could be doing this.'" 

Malia isn't shy about explaining what the encouragement means to her, either. "She's definitely always fought for me to continue to push myself and know that women do have a place in this industry, which I think is super cool and important," Malia said. "You sit in classrooms where it's 90 percent men, and you're like, 'Should I be here? Can I do this?' And she's paved the road for that."

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