26th June 09

I am pleased to introduce you to my new crew member Susana.  Susana is from New Zealand and has been looking after high level quadriplegics for a few years now so was the ideal candidate as my crew member for my trans Atlantic voyage.  She is not a sailor herself but will be undergoing several training courses as part of the preparation for the voyage, including a Ship's Doctor course, Survival at Sea, VHF and Competent Crew.  Hopefully, with me doing all of the sailing and Susana looking after my physical care, she will never need any of these skills but they are essential in forward risk planning.  Susana has been with us for nearly a week now and is beginning to get a feel for the complexities of putting together a trip like this.  In many ways, I think people will be as interested in Susana and how she copes with looking after a quadriplegic whilst sailing the Atlantic as people will be in my side of the story.

I have already set up my own Twitter and Blog page but we may do the same thing for Susana so you get to hear her side of the story too.

Anyway, enough from me.  I'll let Susana do her own introduction...!!

 
You can read Susana's own blog at www.sailingsuze.blogspot.com