Gliding through the waves gives a taste of the high seas

THEY lost their first yacht after striking a reef in the Java Sea, they capsized 3,200 kilometres off the American coast, and they have sailed through the teeth of wild Pacific storms.

Gliding through the waves gives a taste of the high seas

But yesterday, the crew of the only Irish entry in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race faced a sinister new threat – me.

Cork Clipper skipper, Hannah Jenner, 30, who has completed 10 Atlantic crossings, gave me, a complete sailing novice, the wheel of her 67-foot 30 tonne steel-hulled vessel as she and her 13-strong crew prepared for a parade of sail of the Clipper fleet from Kinsale to Cork city.

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