After working for many years in the City of London in the 1970’s I guess I was a bit bored. OK, so the money was good, very good, but I needed some adventure in my life. Then, in the early part of 1977, I saw an advert in The Times asking for volunteers to crew Great Britain II in a sailing race around the world via Cape Horn. I was hooked.
Along with 15 others I enrolled for the adventure. We each paid £4,000 towards the cost of entering the huge yacht ‘Great Britain II’ into the second Whitbread Round the World Race. This is my story of that race. |
