
The Ocean Race Europe
When the Bureau Vallée team invited me to do a leg of The Ocean Race Europe onboard their new IMOCA I didn’t waste a second in consideration before saying Yes.


Flying through May
If you had sat me down at the beginning of 2019 and described to me what May 2021 would look like I am not sure I would have dared to believe you.

Learning from the past, looking to the future
It has now been three months of hard graft. Since I got back to the UK I have not stopped.

Things that go bang in the night
Things that go bang in the night are never a good thing for a Vendée skipper and tonight on Medallia we had a big bang.

The worst weather so far
Just this second one wave has hit Medallia side on, smashing over the top of the cockpit so water has come down below to where I am sitting, at the same time we are surfing down a wave from behind. It is impossible to stand or move around without holding onto something and going forward in the dark to reef the main I am just crawling on hands and knees.