After an early career as a secondary school PE teacher, Dee Caffari

realised that her destiny was a life on the water. She gave up her job

and worked with Mike Golding Yacht Racing, completing a number of

offshore races. During the 2004/5 Global Challenge Race, Dee

successfully skippered 18 amateur yachtsmen around the world and in the

same 72ft yacht, Aviva, she completed her record-breaking

circumnavigation, finishing on 18 May 2006.

WITH A FOREWORD BY JAMES CRACKNELL

In 2006, Dee Caffari became the first woman to sail solo round the

world against the prevailing winds and currents. Her story is an

adventure in the true sense of the word. It is about physical hardship

in terrible conditions, overcoming solitude, sleep deprivation, the

worry of crucial equipment failing, 34 days of gales, 12 metre waves,

cyclones and a lightning strike. It is also about a woman who stepped

outside her safe zone, gave up a good job and financial security, all

because she wanted to sail. She dared to dream, and her courage

resulted in a place in the history books alongside a handful of men.

More

people have walked on the moon than have successfully completed a

westabout circumnavigation, and in this inspirational book Dee shares

the story of her journey from beginner to record breaker.

'I

feel I have been preparing for this my whole life. This is my dream. To

be the first woman to sail the globe single-handed, westabout. It's

twice as long and twice as hard. We can do more than we think we can.

We just have to dare to dream.'
Dee Caffari

'Dee has inspired

the imagination of a worldwide audience. She has joined only four men

who have achieved this feat. Other women may follow, but she will

always remain the first.'
Sir Chay Blyth

'...a moving account of how [Caffari] became the most famous lady of the water after Ellen MacArthur...It [is] a cracking read for non-sailors and sailors alike.'

The inspirational story of an ordinary woman who gave up her career to

learn how to sail and become the first woman to circumnavigate the

world against the prevailing winds and currents.