Jazz Turner: Face Everything and Rise

Jazz Turner: Face everything and rise

Having been given just months to live, Jazz Turner sailed a solo circumnavigation around Britain. The achievement earned her consideration for the Rolex World Sailor of the Year, with Helen Fretter catching up with the finalist for Yachting World: On June 29, a lifeboat crew was attending a multicolored little yacht that had run hard aground off Folkestone, on the south-east corner of England, in the early hours of the morning. The yacht was a 2…

Inside Jazz Turner's unassisted lap of Britain

Having been given just months to live, Jazz Turner sailed a solo circumnavigation around Britain. She talks to Helen FretterOn june 29 a lifeboat crew was attending a multicoloured little yacht that had run hard aground off Folkestone, on the south-east corner of England, in the early hours of the morning. The yacht was a 27ft Albin Vega, sitting high and dry on the rocks, and its skipper a petite young sailor called Jazz Turner, who was in the …