Sailors can be a superstitious bunch and Sam Davies, one of 40 skippers to set off next month on the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world yacht race, is no different.
The 50-year-old Briton is already planning to toss a few chocolates into the ocean and a few drops of alcohol as she passes the almost mythical Point Nemo – the place in the ocean which is furthest from land.
Get to Point Nemo in the South Pacific and you really are in the middle of nowhere – roughly 2,688 kilometres away from the nearest land in three directions – often surrounded by mountainous waves that might snap your boat at any moment.
Davies wants to appease Poseidon, or whichever Sea God rules there, the reason going back to 1998 when she was crewing Royal and Sun Alliance for Tracy Edwards.
“It was an attempt on the Jules Verne Trophy with a 100% female crew,” she told reporters.
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