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can I see myself going back into

academic management's and sitting behind

the desk and working out timetables and

developing pedagogy and developing

assessments and all these kind of things

no not a chance not a chance my life

from now on needs to be on the water and

it needs to be related to this then I

know that I need to make a go of it

in the last four years of my life I've

been living in Astana Kazakhstan which

is one of the capital cities furthest

away from the sea and it drove me

absolutely nuts and it's one of the

reasons why I really wanted to get back

into sailing and back on water as a kid

we always had boats my dad taught us to

sail when we were very young

so I mean I can't remember a life

without being around boats and around

the sea my wife at the time wanted to

come back to the UK she wanted to settle

she wanted a mortgage I didn't we ended

up going our separate ways and sailing

was just something which initially was a

gap-filler a time to go away have a

change of pace have a think about things

I went and on my dad's advice I came and

did my day skipper and I just loved it

and the more people I talked to the more

people were we're talking about it's a

growing industry that there are there

are jobs to be had there's work to be

done there's good work done interesting

work to be done it's not gonna make you

the wealthiest man in the world but it's

a lifestyle and that fitted with the

kind of change that I wanted that it was

work I hadn't really heard of the

delivery industry at all I wasn't

familiar with it just sounded like

something that was really interesting

because it was longer distances and real

sailing on real boats not just going out

on a on a training boat so I just did

some searches and came up with a few

leading companies and healthy and yachts

was always right up there at the top I

had a look through the website and I saw

this career development scheme and I

thought well hold on that that looks

absolutely superb so I sent an email and

by far and away just the best exchange

that I've had with any of the people in

the industry so for me it was there's no

choice and just seemed right

being busy being away being out and

about for a year was perfect I that was

actually what I wanted I wanted to be on

the go I wanted to be on the move and to

see whether or not it was the thing for

me I mean I at that point I still didn't

know sigh how am I gonna react to being

at sea for 12 days 13 days however long

it might be and on some of the longer

trips

I mean I've ended up being on on a trip

for two and a half months I didn't know

if I would like it

luckily I do I would disagree that you

have to be lonely to be a sailor I I can

see what people mean when they say that

I think there's that sense of space the

sense of perspective the sense that

you're a long way away from other things

but I don't think that's I don't think

that has to be lonely single-handed

sailing yes perhaps but for most sailing

you're you're with other people and

although you may only be with two or

three others you form very good

relationships because in sailing well in

any form of sailing sailing sailing is

inherently dangerous but delivery

sailing perhaps more so in a way it is a

relatively extreme form of sailing

because you are going such distances in

relatively short spaces of time so you

have to trust each other and because you

have to trust each other and have to

work together you actually form very

good strong relationships with people

really quite quickly so in that sense I

don't think it's lonely at all but I do

love the sense of perspective that you

get I love being away from the hustle

and bustle and the chaos of of everyday

life and the rat race for me it has been

quite possibly the best year of my life

in the sense that it's just been full of

extremes I mean to think that two or

three years ago if you said to me you'll

have sailed 13 or 14 thousand nautical

miles you'll have sailed across the

Atlantic you would have sailed from the

UK

to Texas I would have believed a single

word of it but so far already one of the

trips 6400 miles

gospel to Texas transatlantic just

unbelievable the sense of space and an

scale you really realize just how big

this this planet is it becomes smaller

and smaller with air travel and the way

that we can get around the world but

when you actually sail across an ocean

you actually realize it it's pretty big

and that has been I think the most

special thing so taking it forward where

it goes from there certainly delivery

sailing will be a central part of it

I've got no question

Raa training if possible if that goes

well I really enjoy the aspects of some

of the training and teaching I've been

able to go on some of the trips and from

there who knows I mean I think just

exploring the the industry and trying to

get as much experience as I can

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