It’s happening.  In 2 days (20th March 2022) the Clipper 19-20 Round the World Yacht race will restart after a 2 year covid delay - the longest race in history!!

I’m on schedule to be race crew for Leg 8…sailing from Bermuda to London, via New York and Londonderry…

The world was so different to when I wrote my original post below, around 3 years ago. Challenge seems to have become a way of life during the pandemic.  I’m now a lot less tough in some ways- physically run down and burnt out with bereavement/Covid, like many people at the moment.  

If anything can blow the cobwebs away, it’s supporting UNICEF and sailing a 70 foot racing yacht across the North Atlantic. This is not a luxury cruise- I’ve been warned I may need to use Sudacrem in some pretty weird places! Yacht bottie anyone?

Please donate as much as you can. All the money goes to UNICEF and their work is as important as ever. F* you Putin.

Smi

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Hey y'all. Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. I'm doing the homecoming transatlantic leg (Leg 8) of the Clipper Round The World Yacht race 2019-2020 (my leg will be June-Aug 2020, although the race starts in Sept 2019 www.clipperroundtheworld.com). For those of you that know me well, I love a good challenge/self torture for charitable purposes.

ALL the money I raise will be going towards Unicef; reasons should be self explanatory (global charity assisting vulnerable children www.unicef.org). 

Why? I guess the Clipper race has always been on my radar...40% of people who do the race have never sailed before...and there will never be a good time to do it. I'm a working mummy doctor with a delightful (nutty) 5 year old boy, an unfinished thesis, 1 husband, 11 goldfish... and zero previous sailing experience.

I've gone from a complete sailing newbie lemming where I was too scared to touch anything (that boom weighs several tonnes)...to being able to successfully crew (hopefully!) a 70 foot racing yacht across the North Atlantic ocean. It's not all for a good cause. Training for this race has introduced me to some of the most warm, adventurous and genuine people on this planet (you know who you are!), and annihilating my comfort zone is both exhilitaring and liberating. Doing it for the working mummies woop!

I'll also hopefully be setting up my own charity at some stage...highlighting the stigma associated with mental ill health in, (not limited to but including) South Asian communities...to be updated...

Love Smi xxx

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