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To celebrate my recent retirement I have planned a big adventure: to sail the Atlantic! On 23^rd October 2009 I will be fulfilling a life long ambition when I set sail from Dartmouth on board Bold Explorer, a 46 foot steel yatch, with 3 other crew and a skipper.  The journey will take me via Madeira, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde before finally dropping anchor in the Virgin Islands in late December.

I plan to raise lots of money for the educational work of the Queen’s Nursing Institute, the charity that supports community nurses in the UK. Please sponsor me so that I can continue to improve education for community nurses.

If you would like to follow my journey, you can read my blog on the QNI website http://www.qni.org.uk/support-us/Karen-Melling.html.

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