Kim-Louise Liddell

So it was four months at sea, I think 20-odd days without any land in sight, completely character building, still friends with those people today.

Wow.

We were actually reenacting Columbus's discovery of America.

So Columbus's discovery of the new world.

And so we sailed with replicas of the Nina, the Pinter and the Santa Maria and a massive fleet of tall ships.

So we raced across the Atlantic.

It was outstanding.

Wow.

Well, way back my parents divorced, so I came from a split family and my dad took up sailing to fill the gap.

And when I got to college, one of my school friends then said, oh, you're from a sailing family, which really I wasn't, just my dad.

And they said her and her siblings had sailed on the Young Endeavour and they said, she said, you might like that.

You're a little bit adventurous.

I'm like, yeah, I might like that.

So I actually did a sail training trip in Australia from Geelong, which is in Victoria, across Bass Strait to Tasmania and then back again.

And it was wild.

Like the storms of Bass Strait, I thought those waves were only what they made for movies.

I was up aloft and they were crashing on me.

It was insane but it ignited something in me, that real sense of adventure.

And when I was on that trip, fortuitously they said that they were going to run a world voyage and I'm like,

That's me.