To Jo Grindley and everyone at ‘Into the blue’ for convincing me to do this book and try to help people understand what the sport of sailing is all about.
To Nick Townsend for his patience and dealing with many weird time zones whilst trying to put this book together.
To everyone at Random House and Yellow Jersey for all their help and efforts. Especially Tristan Jones and Rowan Yapp.
To Phil Slater for teaching me how to sail in the first place.
To the Royal Yachting Association for their support over the years.
To all my sponsors who have been so supportive and helped me get to the startline.
To Mel Coleman for always making me realise how lucky I am to be able to go sailing as a career.
To my parents, my sister Fleur, her husband Jerome, my niece and nephew Tansy and Oscar for all their support and for always being there.