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MALKIN
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Tim Whittle - Skipper
My sailing experience started as the youngest child in a family of five plus dog on a four berth Trident 24 which my father ingeniously converted to five berths by knocking a hole in a bulk head. This effectively resulted in me (not the dog) sleeping in the bosun's locker. There I would read, and be inspired by, Robin Knox Johnson's "A World of My Own".
Later, I crewed for my uncle in a 505 - several national and European championships and two world championships (Helsinki and Santa Cruz). We were rarely at the front of the fleet but it was great fun all the same.
Apart from two yacht deliveries (S. Portugal and the Azores), my "big" boat sailing has thus far been limited to cruising around England's south coast, the Channel Islands, Brittany, Spain and Ireland, more recently with my own family of four (no dog) in Malkin, a five berth 37 ft Westerly Typhoon.
I share Malkin with my father and another friend and, like Peter, am most grateful to them for allowing us to enter this challenge which, if it weren't for Peter's inspiration, I should never have been foolish enough to attempt!
Peter Watson - Co-Skipper
Sailing round Britain and Ireland has been an ambition ever since I first read about the race in Clare Francis’s "Come Hell or High Water". Having sailed with my father on the East and South coasts as a child my first major trip was delivering an Ovni 45 from the Azores to West Palm Beach just two up.
Since then I've raced a Sonata on the East Coast, cruised and raced off Dartmouth and occasionally in hotter climes. I met Tim on a boy's week sailing from Falmouth to Brittany. A perfect week of sea breezes and sunshine and the plan was born! Our qualification trip across Biscay put an element of reality back into our thinking - as did accounts of the last RB&I! Many thanks to Tim's co-owners for agreeing to let us use Malkin, and Siobhan for looking after the kids!
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