I watch a few sailing/boating channels on Youtube.
One of them, The Sailing Frenchman, began as the account of a young bloke (Hugo) fixing an old yacht (which he bought for a bottle of beer) and solo cruising the Mid Atlantic and Caribbean.
But then Hugo got a job…
The Clipper race is a similar sort of deal to what I had when I was on HMB Endeavour. Each yacht has a couple of professional crew, while everyone else are amateurs who are paying for the experience. But unlike the historical theme of HMB Endeavour, the Clipper folks get to experience life on a modern ocean racing yacht.
They began in London, and had a fairly cruisey time of it in the Mid Atlantic. But now they’ve hit the Roaring Forties, and things are getting a bit more adventurous…
It’s good viewing if you have a taste for such things.
