Will Oxley

So every four or five days, I try to find a period of time where I can try and get, say, a three hour uninterrupted sleep and then kickstart again and go for the next four to five days.

My experience is that the quietest people are the most competent in general.

If in three minutes someone's told me their 10 stories about the sailing that they've done,

You tend to go step back a bit.

But the people that have achieved the most and are the most impressive individuals in the sport of sailing are typically the most modest individuals that you would have no idea of what they have done because they're not going to tell you unless you read about it.

As sailors, we are incredibly lucky to see the places that we see and explore.

The Southern Ocean in particular is a place of just an amazing place to be.

Because you're below all of the continents, the waves just continually go round and round and round and get bigger as they go around.

And it's very isolated.

The water is cold, but there is a lot of wildlife.

I've been lucky enough to see and sail alongside hundreds and hundreds of pilot whales surfing along at 30 knots beside me.

It's always amazing when you get down into the south and you see the first of the wandering albatross, which just may spend several hours just soaring behind the boat.

And then...

There are times when the wind may be 50 knots, you're battling mountainous seas and there's spray and sploom everywhere.

And there's these little stormy petrels that are not much bigger than, well, half the size of a can of Coke and they are flittering around.

eating plankton, which is blowing around in the sploom with not a care in the world.

And you're in this maelstrom trying to survive.

And these little birds are kind of going, well, thank you for stirring up this spray.

It's been very helpful in allowing us to eat.

Dawn, I would say.