Pip Hare, 50, who set off in her 60ft (18m) yacht Medallia on 10 November, suffered a dismast about 800 nautical miles (1,480km) south of Australia during the Vendée Globe race.
Using what was left of the mast and sail, Hare, who is based in Poole, Dorset, reached Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday.
She said she was "bitterly disappointed" by the end of her solo attempt, which followed four years of preparation and planning.
The single-handed yacht race began off the coast of France in November, and Hare had been in 15th place when the mast snapped.
She said she was "grateful" that she was "in one piece" and able to make her own way to safety.
"I might be out of the race but the grit and determination I need to compete also helped me cope with what could have been a catastrophic situation," she said.
"And, in a funny way, I enjoyed the slower pace of the voyage to Australia. Ultimately, I'm a professional sailor because I love being out in the ocean and that's where I've been, just not in quite the way I expected."
Hare previously lived in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and learned to sail on the River Deben in Suffolk.
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