132 | Entering the Needles Channel at 15 knots.

In this episode you join me on deck as we enter the Needles Channel, en route to Southampton, to pick up the crew for the Fastnet Expedition 2025.

This comes at the end of a 3500Nm solo transatlantic voyage, on the 80 foot maxi, Osprey.

94 days before, in Nova Scotia, sick and stuck on the mooring, I set myself the challenge to get Osprey into the Centenary edition of the world's most famous offshore race - in this episode you join me as that Dream starts to take on a shade of reality.

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