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On 3 Every Led B Emba Would It Was the W and Cu BP Ex 32,00 in the the 20 BP plc 1 St James’s Square On 3 October 2004, 17 people abandoned London Acknowledgements SW1Y 4PD everyday life to set out on an epic journey. www.bp.com/bpexplorer David Melville and the crew of BP Explorer would like to say thank you to: Led by a professional skipper, they All of our patient and loving friends and family at home They include June James, Simon Timson, Paul Everest, and Kate and Jasper for always being there. Without Roger Badham, Anne Pugh, Philippe Falle, Inspiring embarked on a life-changing journey that your endless help and support in so many ways, none Performance, Ras Turner, Steve White, Chris Tibbs of us would have had the chance to pursue this dream. and Majer Kang of Crystal Travel. would test their strength of character. Sir Chay Blyth. If he had not created this extraordinary Jane, an extra special thank you for remaining as part event none of us would have ever had the opportunity of the team after Wellington. to sail around the planet in a world-class yacht race. All the shore team from Challenge Business for all your BP for being such a fabulous sponsor, especially Claire hard work and to the Race Office staff in Ocean Village. Blakeway and Ruth Cullis, Gary Molver at the Poole Also Tim, Tom and Wibke of Hoods for putting up with It was a journey the ‘wrong way’ around gathering station, the staff at Wytch Farm for their help our miles of blue tape and taking care of our sails; with food packing, and to the employees in the BP thanks to Alistair Munro at Musto. offices in all our ports of call. Thanks also to Jonathan the world, against the prevailing winds and Terusew, our film crew. Finally, thank you to all those who followed the race and sent us encouraging messages through the good times Countless people who helped us prepare for the race and the bad. You kept us going! and currents. They were the crew of the and continued to support us throughout. BP Explorer yacht, and they travelled 32,000 nautical miles in search of victory The BP Explorer project team would also like to thank: in the world’s toughest yacht race – Martin Stanway-Mayers, Richard Spies, Ana Maria Garcia Verity Evans, Caroline Clark and Christina Stuppell Diez, Paula Friere, Carlos Gianicolo, Juan Theodorou, from Enterprise IG; the staff of Challenge Business; Jessica Atelman and Horatio (Pancho) Villagra for their Geraldine de Castri, Suzanne Curtis and Fleur Massey the 2004-05 Global Challenge. support in Buenos Aires; Peter Griffiths, Samantha for their help throughout the project; Steve Dyke at Climo, Jill Kinloch and Jonathan Hill in Wellington; Sarah Aquawaves; Charlie at Seriously Cool Events; Nancy Bond and Gerry Hueston in Sydney; Stephen Beesley, John, Sarah Hallett, Melanie Loubser and Lucy Osborne Rui Jardim, Ana Drabbe, Feryal Domingo, Janet Moss from the Executive Events Team; Martin Kay and all at and Nazli Abass in Cape Town; Barbara Stephen in the Beaulieu Development Centre; Dan Towers and Boston; Philippe Lambert, Valerie Dobrenel and Carole Matt Dickens at onEdition and Ben Afia for copywriting. Wolf in La Rochelle. They would also like to thank Simon Boxall, Sarah Fletcher, Maxine Willsteed and Dawn Boyfield for their tremendous help with the BP Explorer Schools Challenge; Wendy Stephenson and Tim Collins from Sponsorship Consulting Ltd for their PR support; Naomi Cudmore put her Photography career as a commissioning BP Explorer editor on hold to join the The majority of the images in this book are by Feryal Domingo, Johan Swartz and Tim Collins for the crew of BP Explorer in the onEdition, the official photographers for the 2004-05 images on page 18. The Dominion Post for the image 2004-05 Global Challenge. Global Challenge. Copies are available from of the crew celebrating their arrival in Wellington; On board, she had joint www.world-wide-images.com. All on board images Andrea Francolini for the main images on page 29 responsibility for writing were taken by the crew of BP Explorer and are the and 34; Pieter Tol, Warren Millward, Josef Chmielowski the yacht’s daily logs and copyright of Challenge Business. Other image credits and Jane Cook for the images on page 53. was media representative include Caroline Clark, David Shepherd and Chris Ching for the team. Here she for the race start images on page 12; tells their story of the adventure of a lifetime. BP plc 1 St James’s Square On 3 October 2004, 17 people abandoned London Acknowledgements SW1Y 4PD everyday life to set out on an epic journey. www.bp.com/bpexplorer David Melville and the crew of BP Explorer would like to say thank you to: Led by a professional skipper, they All of our patient and loving friends and family at home They include June James, Simon Timson, Paul Everest, and Kate and Jasper for always being there. Without Roger Badham, Anne Pugh, Philippe Falle, Inspiring embarked on a life-changing journey that your endless help and support in so many ways, none Performance, Ras Turner, Steve White, Chris Tibbs of us would have had the chance to pursue this dream. and Majer Kang of Crystal Travel. would test their strength of character. Sir Chay Blyth. If he had not created this extraordinary Jane, an extra special thank you for remaining as part event none of us would have ever had the opportunity of the team after Wellington. to sail around the planet in a world-class yacht race. All the shore team from Challenge Business for all your BP for being such a fabulous sponsor, especially Claire hard work and to the Race Office staff in Ocean Village. Blakeway and Ruth Cullis, Gary Molver at the Poole Also Tim, Tom and Wibke of Hoods for putting up with It was a journey the ‘wrong way’ around gathering station, the staff at Wytch Farm for their help our miles of blue tape and taking care of our sails; with food packing, and to the employees in the BP thanks to Alistair Munro at Musto. offices in all our ports of call. Thanks also to Jonathan the world, against the prevailing winds and Terusew, our film crew. Finally, thank you to all those who followed the race and sent us encouraging messages through the good times Countless people who helped us prepare for the race and the bad. You kept us going! and currents. They were the crew of the and continued to support us throughout. BP Explorer yacht, and they travelled 32,000 nautical miles in search of victory The BP Explorer project team would also like to thank: in the world’s toughest yacht race – Martin Stanway-Mayers, Richard Spies, Ana Maria Garcia Verity Evans, Caroline Clark and Christina Stuppell Diez, Paula Friere, Carlos Gianicolo, Juan Theodorou, from Enterprise IG; the staff of Challenge Business; Jessica Atelman and Horatio (Pancho) Villagra for their Geraldine de Castri, Suzanne Curtis and Fleur Massey the 2004-05 Global Challenge. support in Buenos Aires; Peter Griffiths, Samantha for their help throughout the project; Steve Dyke at Climo, Jill Kinloch and Jonathan Hill in Wellington; Sarah Aquawaves; Charlie at Seriously Cool Events; Nancy Bond and Gerry Hueston in Sydney; Stephen Beesley, John, Sarah Hallett, Melanie Loubser and Lucy Osborne Rui Jardim, Ana Drabbe, Feryal Domingo, Janet Moss from the Executive Events Team; Martin Kay and all at and Nazli Abass in Cape Town; Barbara Stephen in the Beaulieu Development Centre; Dan Towers and Boston; Philippe Lambert, Valerie Dobrenel and Carole Matt Dickens at onEdition and Ben Afia for copywriting. Wolf in La Rochelle. They would also like to thank Simon Boxall, Sarah Fletcher, Maxine Willsteed and Dawn Boyfield for their tremendous help with the BP Explorer Schools Challenge; Wendy Stephenson and Tim Collins from Sponsorship Consulting Ltd for their PR support; Naomi Cudmore put her Photography career as a commissioning BP Explorer editor on hold to join the The majority of the images in this book are by Feryal Domingo, Johan Swartz and Tim Collins for the crew of BP Explorer in the onEdition, the official photographers for the 2004-05 images on page 18. The Dominion Post for the image 2004-05 Global Challenge. Global Challenge. Copies are available from of the crew celebrating their arrival in Wellington; On board, she had joint www.world-wide-images.com. All on board images Andrea Francolini for the main images on page 29 responsibility for writing were taken by the crew of BP Explorer and are the and 34; Pieter Tol, Warren Millward, Josef Chmielowski the yacht’s daily logs and copyright of Challenge Business. Other image credits and Jane Cook for the images on page 53. was media representative include Caroline Clark, David Shepherd and Chris Ching for the team. Here she for the race start images on page 12; tells their story of the adventure of a lifetime. About the race BP Explorer was one of 12 identical, 72 foot yachts that com- peted in the 2004–05 Global Challenge. Each one had a 17-strong crew of novice sailors, and a professional skipper. The Global Challenge was created by Sir Chay Blyth, who achieved what seemed impossible and became the first solo yachtsman to sail around the world non-stop, from east to west. That was a quarter of a century ago, and since then, Sir Chay, and his company Challenge Business have given over 700 brave adventurers the chance to realise the same dream. Foreword It was with great pleasure that I accepted the opportunity Great credit is due to David Melville and all of the crew, to write a foreword for a commemorative book about as well as to the sponsors of BP Explorer who worked BP Explorer’s voyage in the 2004-05 Global Challenge.
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