With a rank of captain, a sea life guard, she sailed over 250,000 nautical miles, often in singlehanded or in two-handed races.

[2] In 2000, on the 40-foot yacht Ntombifuti she finished fourth in the class (in the field of 24 competitors) in the singlehanded transatlantic race OSTAR, from Plymouth to Newport.

In December 2002 and January 2003, on board S/Y Zjawa IV, she sailed three times around Cape Horn and reached the South Shetland archipelago at Antarctic.

In the period between October 2006 and February 2007, in the two-member female only race around the world, on board the 28-foot boat Mantra Asia, she sailed halfway around the world (from Darwin in Australia, across the Indian Ocean to Cape Town in South Africa and further across the Atlantic to Salvador in Brazil, and she won her stage of the race.

On 8 January 2009, Joanna Pajkowska completed in Colón, Panama her solo trip almost around the world with one stop (in Port Elizabeth).

[4][5] In the same year on board the same catamaran she crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times, apart from the OSTAR Race, two-handed or with a crew of 3.

[2] For this achievement for the second time she received the First Prize and Silver Sextant the most prestigious in the Polish sailing community award, in the Rejs Roku (Sailor of the Year) competition.

[8] [9] [10] On 28 May 2019, Pajkowska completed solo, not assisted, and non-stop circumnavigation, on board an aluminium boat s/y Fanfan (40 ft).

[11] For her solo 360 nonstop circumnavigation, Pajkowska was awarded for the third time the First Prize and Silver Sextant, in the Rejs Roku (Sailor of the Year) competition.