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In the Wake of Drake - early adventures antifouling the Pat Patterson designed/skippered Ocean Winds 11 catamaran before a two year circunavigation following Drakes route
Azores and Back Race - my first major offshore event sailing the Hywell price designed ULDB Taal (Housemans UK)
British Steel Challenge - skippers in their former career uniforms
British Steel Challenge - one of the infamous failed forestay component's
British Steel Challenge - Capetown - our first leg win
Westabout Record - Solent photoshoot and the cover for my book No Law, No God
Westabout Record - departure
Westabout Record - Group 4 heading south past the Canaries
Admirals Cup - Group 4 Mumm 36 fleet start in the Solent
BT Global Challenge - the fleet gathers in St Katherines Dock
BT Global Challenge - shortly after the start in a brutal F8!
BT Global Challenge - this iconic shot that was taken as we left the Solent in brutal conditions!
BT Global Challenge - The joyful winners with the Princess Royal Trophy
Team Group 4 - during construction at JMV Cherbourg
Team Group 4 - designed by Groupe Finot
Atlantic Alone - Falmouth UK to Charlston USA - TG4's first competitive outing
Around Alone - Leg 2 Charlston USA to Cape Town
Around Alone - Team Group 4
Around Alone - Team Group 4 - just loved those graphics!
Round the Island Race - TG'4 powers through the fleet at 24kts
Vendee Globe 2000 - heading south!
Vendee Globe - near the Falkland Islands, jury rigging one of TG4's textile shrouds that very nearly chaffed through!
Around Alone - Team Group 4
Around Alone - Team Group 4
Team Group 4 - Transat poster
Vendee Globe - Team Group 4 nav station on Christmas Day in the Southern Ocean
Route du Rhum - For the first time monohulls beat the ORMA 60's to Guadalope after an Atlantic storm pretty much decimated the entire ORMA fleet
Route du Rhum - with my greatest supporter and friend Jørgen Philip-Sørensen CBE
Route du Rhum - prizegiving
Route du Rhum - as Ecover our first major race with Ecover as sponsor
Transat Jacque Vabre - shortly after the start
Ecover 3 - testing
Vendee Globe - start
Vendee Globe - MG Profile photo
Ecover 2
Vendee Globe - start
Calais Round Britain - English Channel
Vendee Globe - heading down the canal in Les Sable d'Olonne to the start
Vendee Globe - heading south pasting the Cape Verdes
Vendee Globe - Cape Horn
Vendee Globe - high speed sailing in the South
Vendee Globe - British Skippers
Vendee Globe - start
Calais Round Britain Race
Velux 5 Oceans - race start
Velux 5 Oceans - Bilbao
Calais Round Britain Race
Velux 5 Oceans - with Alex Thomson immediatly after the rescue - two relieved sailors reflecting on the stressfilled events of the previous 24 hours. Minutes later the appraching storm front sunk Hugo Boss and dismasted us on Ecover 2!
Around Alone - arriving in Cape Town one week after rescuing Alex and our subsequent dismasting. Our efficent jury rig in action, even the local rescue boat could not keep up!
Ecover BtoB Race (Defi Atlantic) - race start
Ecover BtoB Race (Defi Atlantic) - race start
Ecover 3
Transat Jacque Vabre - with Bruno Dubois
Vendee Globe - training sail
FICO World Champion Awards at London Boat Show
Transat Jacque Vabre - Ecover 3
Transat Jacque Vabre - first race outing for Ecover 3
Ecover 3 - designed by Owen Clark and built at Hakes - she looked amazing with the Auckland skyline in the background!
Vendee Globe
Vendee Globe - race start
Vendee Globe - departure from the dock
Vendee G;lobe - race start
Vendee Globe - ariel photo shoot English Channel
Extreme Sailing Series
Extreme Sailing Series
Extreme Sailing Series - Frazier Brown, Nick Houchin, Mike Golding, Bruno Dubois, Will Howden
Vendee Globe - N Atlantic vistor
Vendee Globe - Ecover 3 nav station
Vendee Globe - dock ambience
One of my more unusual photoshoots
Extreme Sailing Series
Extreme Sailing Series - prizegiving
Extreme sailing Series - Venice
Synergy - our project goals and attributes aligned completly with thise of Gamesa
Gamesa Team Event - Solent
Green Marine - E3 becomes Gamesa following a major refit with a new roof, mast and lighter keel
Gamesa - taken at Green Marine during Gamesa refit
Gamesa - HRH Princess Anne smashes the bubbly, what a pro!
Gamesa naming/dedication Southampton Boat Show- I was honoured once again to have HRH Princess Anne perform the ceremony
Gamesa - 90 degree pulldown test, Ocean Village
Transat Jacque Vabre
Gamesa
Gamesa - Le Havre prologue photoshoot
Gamesa - TJV prolouge event Le Havre
Vendee Globe - a flying squid, really...
Vendee Globe - mountainous seas in the Southern Ocean
Vendee Globe - photo shoot
Vendee Globe - race start
Vendee Globe - one very happy finisher!
Vendee Globe - arrival back in Les Sable d'Olonne
Vendee Globe - race start
Vendee Globe -3 million visited the village during the three week build up!
Vendee Globe - exiting the canal Les Sable d'Olonne, every inch of the shoreline was packed!
Cardiff - Exteme Sailing Series - SpeedDream 27
Cardiff - Extreme Sailing Series - SpeedDream 27
St Barts Bucket - Lady B
Paris - Vendee Globe skipper profile photo exhibition
St Barts Bucket - Lady B crew briefing
N Atlantic - Pheado (Mod 70)
Portugese Coast - Pheado (Mod 70)
Portugese Coast - Pheado (Mod 70)
Vendee Globe - race start
St Barts Bucket - Lady B
London Boat Show - Knowledge Box
Poole Regatta - Diam 24 racing
Vendee Globe - pre-race Les Sable D'Olonne, the atmosphere is electric!
Weymouth Bay - C-Fly in full flight!
Fastnet Race - Fastnet Rock
Fastnet Race - approaching the rock
Fastnet Race - Hydra (Class 40)
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