I've been helping cruisers find their way home or to safe harbour for the past couple of months through the Ocean Cruising Club. I was approached by a journalist, Susan Smillie, about stories that she might use to bring awareness to cruisers' plight in an article she was writing for the Guardian. So I spent about an hour on the phone with her - me in the west of Ireland, she alone on her boat in Greece. Then I directed her to stories unfolding in the OCC Facebook groups. She penned an article that was published yesterday morning.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/12/long-journey-home-the-stranded-sailboats-in-a-race-to-beat-the-hurricanes
The BBC World Service read the article and contacted me about doing a radio interview, which I did this morning at about 7:20 am. Anyone who knows me knows I don't do well in the morning. But I got up at 630 and took a shower and had a cup of coffee and some yogurt. From the sounds of it, I came across okay.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00w940j/clips
Next comes an article for CNN.
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