What inspired you to join the Clipper Race?
I was looking for a new challenge. I started my children's day nursery in 1998 and it took me 13 years to build it up to the stage where we had a really good reputation and achieved an Ofsted rating of outstanding. I asked myself 'What next?', I had never had a gap year but thought I was a bit old at 56 to go backpacking round the world. I saw a poster for the Clipper Race on the London Underground about ten years ago, but never thought I would be able to do it. When I sold the nursery, it was either a sports car or the Clipper Race. No contest really - especially when you consider that my nursery had been called Setting Sail.
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