SARAH started sailing as a child in dinghies and got into bigger boats in her 30’s. She has owned two yachts, living aboard and skippering her 12-metre ketch Roaring Girl for nearly 10 years. Sarah sailed her from eastern England to the Mediterranean and through Morocco, Spain and Italy to Malta and back. In 2016 she sailed on Bark Europa for two months from Punta Arenas to Cape Town via Antarctica and is experienced in sail handling, watch keeping, navigation and weather.
Sarah is a writer and sailor, and works in environmental and public services. She writes a lot, both policy and fiction, about climate, pollution and the ocean. Sarah hopes to bring experience in presenting complex issues in ways that stimulate people’s passions and imagination and will create a blog telling the crew’s stories and a follow-on from the Europa story at www.sailingtoantarctica.com. Sarah is looking forward to visiting and revisiting the British coast, and meeting amazing women along the way – “I am delighted to have the opportunity to be part of a mission which both collects data and highlights some of the challenges to our oceans and shores”. Sarah will be joining all three legs of our Round Britain voyage.
