Bonnie Hancock

sometimes all I could do when I came onto the boat was actually lay out on the back deck of the boat because that's the most stable part of a boat, of a catamaran.

So actually at the front of the boat, that was the worst.

And the worst place you can go is down into the galley, down into the kitchen, because that's where the heat is.

So you want to keep cool and you want to stay out on the back deck.

So while I was laying flat

flat down on the back deck, asking my crewmates to get a bunch of different things for me, a blanket to keep me warm, maybe a cup of, you know, hot chocolate.

That's when I was, what I would call that was my safe place.

Other than that, everywhere else, it was just, it was on for young and old with the vomiting.

Were you falling out?

Multiple times a day.

There were times I was falling out of my ski up to 10 times a day.

And you've got to remember as well, with these tailwinds, the boat's moving, the catamaran's moving so quickly.

There was a time down in Victoria where the boat was sailing at 13 kilometres an hour with the sails down.

So they couldn't go any slower.

So I've got to go with the boat, you know, out in the middle of the ocean.

I was falling out and the boat was taking 500 meters to come back so you know for 10 minutes I'm waiting for this boat to turn around and a part I often forget to mention is a lot of this paddle was done at night.

Why at night?

There were certain reasons.

you want to work with mother nature, with the wind.

So you want to paddle when that wind's behind you.