Kim Davies took up sailing after beginning to use a wheelchair having had a stroke in 2019.
The Hindhead Tunnel reopens after an earlier crash involving motorcyclists, National Highways says.
Eight teams are carrying a stretcher a combined 100 miles (160km) through Surrey in three days.
Frances Reincke was sailing in the 1979 Fastnet Race when a fierce Force 10 storm hit.
Surrey Police say one car crossed the central reservation and hit another.
A woman also sustained life-threatening injuries in the crash, while four men were seriously hurt.
Mary Michelle Devine and her seven-year-old daughter Theia crashed near the Hindhead Tunnel.
Police appeal for witnesses after the crash on the Hampshire side of the Hindhead Tunnel on Thursday.
Some 43,000 drivers use Hindhead Tunnel each day - but who are the people keeping them safe?
