I am finally taking a gap year and competing in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race which starts from Liverpool on the 20th August 2017.  You can see the route here.

The weeks of training that began last September are nearly complete, lots of kit acquired and I’m now getting my house ready to rent out. Even the press was interested ??

I blame Tamsin. She’s my daughter and having never sailed before, phoned me one day to tell me she had signed up for he final leg on the 15-16 race to sail back from New York to London!! Totally floored me. In the end, she sailed the last 3 legs beginning in Qingdao and raced to Seattle, through the Panama canal to New York and then back to London via Derry-Londonderry-Doire.

Last Saturday was very exciting as we went to Portsmouth for crew allocation; a day long awaited as we found out who we’d be sailing with. I’m delighted to be sailing with a great team under Dave Hartshorn in Team David (yet to have our sponsor announced).