When you’ve sailed around the world six times and become the only woman to have circumnavigated in both directions solo, and then the only woman to have sailed three times round non-stop, it’s going to take something pretty special to get you to go again.
But when the French Vendée Globe sailor Alexia Barrier picked up the phone to Dee Caffari two years ago and asked her to join what has become The Famous Project CIC as co-skipper, Caffari barely waited until she had stopped speaking to say “yes.”
Having already sailed as a skipper in the Global Challenge Race, completed a solo record-setting round-the-world voyage westabout, a Vendée Globe, the Barcelona World Race and two Volvo Ocean Races – one as skipper – an all-female attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy was the one thing missing.
And when you talk to Caffari about it you can still hear the excitement in her voice at being given the opportunity. “For me,” she said, “if I was going to go for lap No. 7, it needed to be very special.
